Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
