Russian Culture
An austere opera
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
The sweet sounds of catastrophe
Shostakovich/Britten: Cello works (Decca)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
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What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
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Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf