Johannes Brahms
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
