Music
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
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
A full musical meal
An unforgettable concert experience
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
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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
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms