Freddy Adu
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
Stormont desperately needs reform
The interests of Northern Irish voters are being sacrificed to the perceived needs of the peace process
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
The Caribbean after slavery
Professor Jeremy Black on the Caribbean in the 19th century
Send in the spivs
War offers so much more in the way of profitable procurement than even the pandemic
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
Universities are not counselling services
By expecting them to do everything, we forget their central purpose: education
Walking the path of the stupidly rich
Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn
Ben Fogle: Pukka prince of fluff
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Don’t trust the myths of biology
Being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with tits