The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra

Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view

The search engine that tells you if you are descended from slave owners

The poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies

The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza

Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic

By means of proper framing, graphs can lie like a parliamentary candidate

Patrick Galbraith enjoys a frustrating day with dog and gun

Don’t look a gift train in the mouth

With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem