Music
Musical morphine
Radio 3 has given up its time-honoured mission to inform, educate and entertain
Album of the year?
György Kurtág: Játékok (Pentatone)
The curious rebirth of Gregorian chant
Is Gregorian Chant this generation’s cool music?
Pure pleasure
Maurice Ravel: Complete solo piano music (Chandos), Complete songs (Signum)
Kneecap are the establishment’s idea of rebellion
The hip hop trio are more pathetic than iconoclastic
Jenufa’s body
Zlatomir Fung: Fantasies (Signum)/Stephen Sondheim: Chamber music (Bridge)
On “Festen” and forgetting
The latest production of the Royal Opera was gripping but occasionally unconvincing
Royally good
The King’s Singers: Such stuff as dreams are made on (Signum)
Russian roulette
Musicians lived in constant terror of putting a foot, or a note, wrong
Sheer sensual pleasure
Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics)
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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
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes