The Israeli prime minister is using all manner of excuses to avoid appearing in court tomorrow to face questioning in his long-running corruption trial. Among his excuses are the situation in Syria, accelerated negotiations with […]
Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca was born 127 years ago today, on June 5th, 1898, and he died, violently, on August 19th, 1936, killed by a Fascist firing squad in the early days of the Spanish […]
The manager of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Pont, has circulated an open letter to colleagues, lashing out at the Süddeutsche Zeitung for minimising reviews of the orchestra. ‘I heard at the end of […]