Music
Small chips off an old block
Soulima Stravinsky (Nimbus)
David Bowie was a political shapeshifter
The pop enigma veered between the far right and the right on
Adulterating Amadeus
A new series does an injustice to Mozart, Shaffer, Forman and TV in general
Expensive thrills
Turandot, Royal Opera
Bob Dylan and the mystery of traditional music
In becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman entered a mysterious, invisible world
A discipline in danger
Universities should not respond to funding crises by axeing the arts
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
Music for troubled souls
NIGUN (SWR Music)
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
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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
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?