Sergei Babayan
Rachmaninov: Preludes, Etudes (DG)
Babayan’s Rachmninov is remarkable is its absence of obvious virtuosity
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
