Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
