Culture
Pipe down and play up
We need more silence in sport
Bring on the big beasts
Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence
Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)
A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
Studio: The “Fallas” of Valencia
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
Maxxed out
Battling imposter syndrome in the brave new world
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Works and Piano Sonatas
If you want an entry point to Weinberg, this is it
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers