Engaging the anonymous IEngage
IEngage, once Inayat Bunglawala's vanity project, has written about my piece in the Wall Street Journal from a few weeks ago. In my piece
A Spot of Brahms in the Balkans
It's been a dizzying time, this Balkan tour. Sorry for lack of reports on the road, but I spent every spare moment catching up
A Little Humility Goes A Long Way
Several people have written or tweeted to ask for a report on my chat with Helene Grimaud last weekend at the Institut Francais. Delighted,
Sex in the Flower Beds
We over-humanise animals while underestimating plants. But it’s the latter that do all the work for us
Blackburne the Rover
A hard-drinking, physically violent workaholic, Joseph Blackburne was the master of the simultaneous display
All Change
‘Now that I am about to leave, I realise how uniquely American is the craving for “change”’
The New South Sea Bubble
Auction houses are reporting records being broken—even though the works on sale are quite mundane
Assassin in a Hijab
Roshonara Choudhary's attack on MP Stephen Timms is an example of a growing trend of small-scale, individually-planned terrorism