Orchestra
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
