Renaud Capuçon
Elgar: Violin concerto/violin sonata (Warner)
Elgar works best when a conductor appears to do least
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
