Music
Bring back the Radio 4 UK Theme
A fractured nation needs its unifying sounds
Mahler done right
Gustav Mahler: 7th symphony (BR Klassik)
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
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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
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world