Polish
Defiantly playful
A composer worth discovering and rediscovering
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
