Tempest
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
Will higher defence spending go on tech or boots on the ground?
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Bridget Phillipson: culture warrior
The Labour party seems determined to end the culture war — by winning it
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
