Robert Schumann
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
