October 2010

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My interview with the utterly incredible Gabriela Montero is in The Independent today: enjoy.

The "Golden Shield Project" is blocking access to great swathes of the web, but Chinese netizens are fighting back

The problem with Inayat Bunlawala is that, well, he's just not that smart. It probably explains why he remains an Islamist well into his thirties. To be honest, I haven't written about

The International Chopin Competition in Warsaw is steaming on towards its finals this week. The contest puts out a daily newspaper in Polish and English, in collaboration with Gramophone and English-language editor

This autumn the Independent's blogs are having a culturefest: they are partnering with the Battle of Ideas festival to present a series of guest blogs from festival speakers on the key questions

Alisa Weilerstein, the wonderful young American cellist, is playing at the Wigmore Hall tomorrow night. My interview with her was in last week's JC, though I didn't realise until yesterday because Google

I have a piece in the Observer about the lamentable manner in which University College, London reacted to the discovery that one of his graduates had turned into a potential mass murderer.

The Crown Prosecution Service has denied accepting the conclusions of the Goldstone report on Operation Cast Lead, Israel's military action in Gaza nearly two years ago.

George Bathurst Norman, the part-time judge who expressed his personal view of Israel's actions in Gaza to a jury when summing up in a trial for criminal damage, has been reprimanded for