Music Industry
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human