Orientalism
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
What Britain’s first Asian prime minister means to me
Confessions of a borientalist
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
