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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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting