Music
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
A hint of the mystical
Music has inspired two fine new productions
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
Haba listen
Alois Haba: Complete piano music (Supraphon)
The world’s greatest classical music festival?
This is democracy manifest
Bob Vylan are a product of the establishment
The controversial duo are more tedious than frightening
Prodigiously original
Alkan: Early works (Piano Classics)
Bum deal
The Queen of Spades, Garsington
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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
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham