Culture
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
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
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
