Artillery Row
György Ligeti: The 13 Etudes (Hyperion)
If you want to know what a piano can do, you really need to settle down with this absorbing world of sound
Bang, bang, I’m dead
‘The worst thing about my condition is that it makes me feel like the world’s biggest wimp’ – Dominic Hilton opens up about his lifelong phobia
Heroes, but not trans heroes: How two female artists defied the Nazis
Jeffrey Jackson’s lively and compassionate account plunges readers into the depths of the Occupation and the Channel Islands’ resistance movement
Six ways to end Britain’s culture wars
Nigel Jones proposes a list of six steps that the government could easily enact to conserve our liberty
The iconic history of London’s 100 Club
Steve Morris recalls the iconic Oxford Street basement club which has housed London’s evolving music scene since the Second World War
Inscrutable Wagner
Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy
The generals’ war on the internet
Myanmar’s new draft cybersecurity law could have grave consequences for civil rights and freedom of expression
Poirot’s little grey cells
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective
Why are so many actors and filmmakers being cancelled?
From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?
No coffee, please, but Ethiopia can burn
Ethiopia, the home of coffee, falls apart under the world’s muddled gaze while Portugal implements arbitrary Covid-19 restrictions on caffeine consumption