Mitsuko Uchida
Debussy, Messiaen: Extase (Pentatone)
Kozena brings an unexpected touch of Janacek in the night
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion