Music
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
