Golf
Team players
Why are some athletes better in teams than on their own?
Up for the cup
Hoping for a golfing renaissance in Rome
Team Europe
In the Ryder Cup the US have the superstars, the major titles, the private jets. Europe have team spirit
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
