Musician
Spare us the skintight sonata
If Yuja Wang were to strip everything right down to the music, she could be a sensation
Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats