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
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
