Dracula
When in Romania…
This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say