Kate Mossman

3 weeks ago | internazionale.it | Kate Mossman

Vladimir Putin di solito arriva in ritardo alle sedute plenarie, e in occasione del Forum Artico internazionale russo di fine marzo si è presentato quaranta minuti prima dei collegamenti di Steve Rosenberg con News at six e con il canale Radio 4 della Bbc. “Siccome in questo momento sono l’unica persona della Bbc in Russia, sono costantemente reperibile, ed è stancante”, dice Rosenberg in tono gioviale, collegato su Zoom da una stanza dalle pareti bianche a Mosca.

3 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman

Fifteen years after he left 10 Downing Street, Gordon Brown still has people who turn up at his gates: fanatical followers, disciples of his economics who, like all fans, feel they understand him so well they can improve on his work. One man came from Australia, called to Brown by a dream, to tinker with one of his fiscal ideas. North Queensferry is hot and still at 9am on a Thursday morning in April and the Firth of Forth is shining so bright you can’t look at it head on.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kate Mossman

Young musicians have so little to say. Give me a rocker in his later years any day. Ask him about his childhood, his relationship with his mum, his painful lifelong love affair with his lead guitarist. Many belong to a specific anthropological group: born after the war, they got their first guitars on hire purchase and went on to date the aristocracy.

1 month ago | newstatesman.com | Kate Mossman

At some point in the unreconstructed noughties, I read an article about the differences in the way men and women  listen to music. I recall it very well. It suggested that men listen to melodies and women listen to lyrics; that men had huge record collections and women had fewer albums, which they loved more; that men liked to argue over “boring things” like time signatures and key changes, while women had a more instinctive connection with the way music made them feel.

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Kate Mossman

Rick and Jack Stein on £2.80 lobster thermidor, throwing customers out of restaurants, and why they don’t care about Michelin stars Portraits by Phil FiskFood Photography by James MurphyThe Stein family might have built an empire on fish but they’re not so good at catching it. Rick and his three sons, Edward, Jack and Charlie – all now in their forties – take an annual trip to some watery idyll each year, but they failed to catch a salmon in Iceland, which most can do blindfolded.