Polish Culture
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Sex-Machina
Holy month is upon us
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
Murders for June
Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest
