Sholto Byrnes
Sholto Byrnes is a contributing editor of the New Statesman and the jazz critic of the Independent. Previously he was diary editor, chief interviewer and senior feature writer at both Independent titles. He is a judge for this year's Paul Hamlyn Foundation awards for composers.
Articles by Sholto Byrnes
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Music
The colour of music
- 01 November 2007
- 8 comments
The dissonance and abstraction of 20th-century composers influenced a generation of visual artists
Travel
Streets of shame
- 04 October 2007
- 4 comments
Once called "the Paris of the east", Bucharest still bears the scars of dictatorship
World Affairs
Burma's hour of need
- 27 September 2007
- 2 comments
Fine words are not enough. The international community must find a coherent strategy to deal with the generals - and China is the key.
Ideas
Power to the people
- 13 September 2007
Seen as weak, liberalism is actually a victim of its own success
Society
Tribalism places party before country
- 23 August 2007
Tribalism is unthinking, it brooks no disagreement. It is, essentially, anti-democratic, as we know if we look around the world
Society
Tony Blair - a penitent Catholic
- 02 August 2007
- 14 comments
We have had a Jewish prime minister in Disraeli, a Methodist in Thatcher, but still not a Catholic
Middle East
Waheed Pepsi, s'il vous plaît
- 21 June 2007
Watching the glamorous, polyglot Lebanese enjoy the sun, I thought what an attractively sybaritic race they are
Travel
Recipe for success
- 02 April 2007
Sholto Byrnes celebrates 50 years of Malaysian independence with a rather special banquet
