Music
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)
Superficial pleasures
A te, Puccini (Signum)
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
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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
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?