Cahaca
The samba spirit
On cachaça, pisco and the pick of South American spirits
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Death in the shadows
The sad case of Sudiksha Thirumalesh
