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William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
