Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
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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
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world