Rafael Kubelik
An end-of-the-world air
Martinu: quartets/Kapralova: songs (Supraphon/Chandos)
A well-watered lawn
Viktor Kalabis: Chamber music (Hyperion)
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity