Caroline Shaw
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
