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
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
