Music
Top of the polls
Starmer’s cult of impersonality is frustrating Labour Leninists everywhere
New tunes from a hatful of old songs
We approach Dylan’s both peerless and wildly uneven catalogue only through the after-image of his dazzling prime
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
In search of the real Mahler
How Mahler’s music is about living in the moment
Top of the pops?
What makes great rock and roll
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
More than a little bit mad
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
