Bertrand Chamayou
Almost too poignant to bear
Franz Schubert: 4-hand piano music (Erato)
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?