Thomas Adès
Solem Quartet: The Four Quarters (Orchid)
The Solem Quartet are my frontrunners for the best new talent in 2021
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
