Music
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
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Rewatching the English
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Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”