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
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
The Post Office scandal
Legislation to resolve the injustice is not as straightforward as it seems
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
