Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Paderewski & Stojowski: Violin Sonatas (CPO)
I would happily subscribe to an emergent series of forgotten Polish treasures if the quality remained this high
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
