Music
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Where are the bodies?
The curious case of Kemi’s “sackings”
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
A great Games
Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
