Violinist
A worthy heiress to Princess Ida
Where has originality and character gone in the art of Violin playing?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself