Alexander Cohen
Alexander Cohen is an Arts Critic. He tweets at @CohenCritic
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves