Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
