Italian Culture
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
