Cultural Revolution
From disaster to opportunity
London’s orchestral rat-race will have fewer runners when musical life returns, says Norman Lebrecht
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
