Frederic Chopin
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Alice Sara Ott: Echoes of Life (DG)
Alice Sara Ott gives Frederic Chopin’s preludes a “dazzling” contemporary twist
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
