Zoltan Kodaly
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities