Lexile Scale
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Final notes
The end The Musical Times is symbolic of a broader malaise in classical music
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party