Music
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Bring on the big beasts
Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
Gone West
What happened to Kanye?
No, THIS is hardcore: UK82 remembered 40 years on
What happened to the early eighties world of doc martins and Mohawks?
Playing with fire
Is writing a show about burns victims and the pioneering Guinea Pig Club really “appropriate”?
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
