violin
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
