West Germany
How West Germany rode the storm
Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Death in the shadows
The sad case of Sudiksha Thirumalesh
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
