Governance
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Don’t let the government poach your pouch
A moral panic is brewing over nicotine pouches
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
D stands for disgrace
He’ll start the defeat from right here
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
