Music
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
