violin
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
