Millenials
Degrees of Mental Illness
Cassandra Russell on the university students who game the system by self-diagnosing as psychologically unwell
Mindfulness won’t get you through the lockdown
Brits needs to rediscover their stiff upper lip
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one