Paris Lockdown
Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
