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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

Newsnight has broken the story of a British man, Abdul Jabbar, being killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan last month. Jabbar is believed to have been linked to the

The late Sir Cyril Smith is solid proof that fat men are not always harmless men

'The Chinese government is destroying the mud-brick maze of traditional Kashgar to cement control over its rebellious Turkic natives. Uighurs are terrified that by mid-century they will have become the Apache or

So it seems that some of the usual suspects among the cultural great and good - Stephen Fry, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman - have signed up to a campaign in opposition to