discourse
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Mental healthing ourselves to death
Our discourse has brought more confusion than clarity
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing
The Gaza pier and the failings of a “do something” foreign policy
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment