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
The generation game
Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
