Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one