Jean Sibelius
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The meaning of life itself
Sir Thomas Beecham: Complete stereo recordings (Warner)
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
I’m so over Exposed
Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back by Clare McGlynn
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)