Norman Lebrecht
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival
Nino Rota: Chamber music (Alpha)
Norman Lebrecht gifts five stars for this “astonishing” revival of work from the late, great film composer, Nino Rota
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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
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people