David Conway
David Conway is a music historian, academic and writer, and chairman of the Hampstead Garden Opera.
A tale of two tribes
The diverging fates of Central Europe’s Roma and Jewish musicians
Interview: Semyon Bychkov on Ukraine and nationhood
He discusses exile, the horrors of totalitarianism and why Russophobia is not the answer
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
