György Ligeti
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting