Music
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
How to start a church choir
It is time to renew choral music — and our culture
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
Classical musicians should spread their wings
We need more collaboration and more experimentation for classical music to flourish
Vivid nostalgia
The Cunning Little Vixen, Irish National Opera, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
Baroness Chakrabarti is living in a world of make believe
No, drill rap is not comparable to mafia films and country music songs
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
An austere opera
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera
The end of UK drill
A genre based on sensational violence is simply fizzling out
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity