Music
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”?
Devil’s music
“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal
Nastasia Khrushcheva: Normal Music (Melodiya)
In troubled times for Russia, this album hints at the future of the country’s music
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
In my ears and in my eyes
The Lyrics: the autobiography Paul McCartney never wrote
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
