Culture
High culture or state-of-the-art murder simulators?: Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt reviewed
For the past few decades, admirers of video-games have every couple of years mounted a new attempt to persuade the…
Nine reasons to be cheerful this year
Since it’s the first week of the New Year I’m going to pretend the bad stuff isn’t happening and focus…
Poor conduct
Last weekend Daniel Barenboim brought the Staatskapelle Berlin to perform at the BBC Proms for a cycle of Elgar’s symphonies.…
Free as a jailbird
Food programmes are having a strange effect on me: I watch them and feel nauseated. Masterchef, The Great British Bake…
The London mayoral election will be a battle between whatsisface and whatsisname
London, 2012. It’s Olympic year, and east London is sprouting anew, and our city feels like the capital of the…
Plato and think-tanks
In Living with Difference, a think-tank report on the problems raised by a multi-faith UK, the chair Baroness Butler-Sloss says…
Long life
I went last week to see the justly praised production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers at English National Opera, and I…
Long life
Who would ever have thought it, but I have become quite fond of Milton Keynes. Although I live slightly closer…
