Marx
The Russians aren’t coming
New music was not officially muted in the Soviet Union. It just got left at home, says Norman Lebrecht
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
