Silvestrov
Valentin Silvestrov: 7th symphony (Naxos)
Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave
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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
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer