Mariss Jansons
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act
The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism
The People’s Republic of Worcester College
A student dares to cross the red quad and speak out about a shoddy show trial
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Don’t trust the myths of biology
Being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with tits
Putin and the Pope
Can the Argentinian pontiff make a difference in Ukraine?
Shapps is shocked, shocked!
The Prime Minister’s defence calls in a specialist