Recording
We are indebted to Otto Klemperer
On the extraordinary talent of a troubled composer
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
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
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production