Conductors
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
