Roger Federer
Simply the best
It is not just trophies and success that mark out Federer, but grace, personality and charm
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
