Zygmunt Stojowski
Paderewski & Stojowski: Violin Sonatas (CPO)
I would happily subscribe to an emergent series of forgotten Polish treasures if the quality remained this high
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
