Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott: Echoes of Life (DG)
Alice Sara Ott gives Frederic Chopin’s preludes a “dazzling” contemporary twist
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
