Renaud Capuçon
Elgar: Violin concerto/violin sonata (Warner)
Elgar works best when a conductor appears to do least
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Debunking degrowth
Want to be poorer and less free? Do we have an ideology for you
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism