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
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
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
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
