Dmitri Shostakovich
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Over-simplified and underpowered
Shostakovich symphonies 2, 3, 12, 13 (DG)
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
