Nazis
October: Letters to the Editor
Defending the faiths and population Ponzi schemes
Erwin Schulhoff: Violin sonatas (Orfeo/FHR)
Virtuosity amidst violence
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Metamorphosen (Chandos)
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy
He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
The dying days of Nazi Germany
A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
The Austrian solution
Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
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
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism