Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival
Most Read
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy