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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)