Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Nostalgia – The Sea of Memories (Accent)
A marvellous blend of early Baroque and Mediterranean traditional songs
Christopher Rouse: 5th symphony (Naxos)
What Rouse wrote was an intimate series of love letters to the orchestra
An essential record
Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?