Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
Sturgeon’s options
Should the SNP be patient, or trigger a crisis?
The late Leonardo
The Louvre’s anniversary exhibition has been a fraught exercise from first to last
Inside Number 10
Jack Brown showcases hidden heroes, the history of the building and the famous figures who have passed through
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’