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I am off to Berlin tomorrow to interview Nigel Kennedy after his jazz gig at the Brandenburg Gate, which is part of the closing celebrations of the World…

Fascinating piece in The New Yorker by the super Alex Ross about the processes of digitally restoring old recordings, and the sheer mindboggling availability of different formats in the marketplace today, thanks

Friday afternoon and time for some great music. Next Tuesday's Prom features one of my very favourite orchestras, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under its superconductor Ivan Fischer.

In my Observer column I point out that the government may make inflation forecasts and debt forecasts but not unemployment forecasts. Well, just imagine if one of those were to leak out

In late June the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) released a report entitled "Hamas: Ideological Rigidity and Political Flexibility", an analysis of the ideological and political background of Hamas, and the

Newspapers hate giving credit to rivals, so when an article in one is cited in another you can guarantee that it is a significant piece of work. John Kay's analysis in the

Anne Midgette, music critic of The Washington Post, has an interesting survey on her blog 'The Classical Beat': she wants to find out whether people still buy CDs. How big is the

Jewish leaders are deeply concerned by a ruling from the Court of Appeal last week on school admissions policies. They are right to be concerned — although the judgment has been much

Woodcutting is the original and most basic technique of image reproduction. I thought it would be fascinating to combine this form with a much newer technique of reproduction by carving a video

Cockroach by Rawi Hage

Surviving by Allan Massie

The computer is a useful tool. Photoshop is a computer tool for picture making. It in effect allows you to draw directly in a printing machine, one of its many uses. One