Franz Schmidt
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian