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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Ideas
NS Essay - 'Our faith in western liberal democracy, and our belief that it possesses a superior moral truth, have blinded us to countries with other traditions'
- 03 October 2005
If you say that different cultures are entitled to their own views on right and wrong you will be howled down as a "relativist". But since when did the west have a monopoly on wisdom?
Society
Stop knocking Richard Desmond
- 08 December 2003
It's simple snobbery that makes the Telegraph toffs scorn the owner of Horny Housewives
Arts & Culture
Past master
- 13 January 2003
Music - Sholto Byrnes on why re-creation is as important as innovation in jazz
Arts & Culture
Con-fusion
- 18 November 2002
Jazz - Sholto Byrnes says that what passes for world music is often a sham
Society
NS Profile - Max Hastings
- 26 August 2002
Once Fleet Street's most feared editor, he now speaks for the countryside. But can he ever learn to be a gentleman? Max Hastings profiled
Arts & Culture
Not enough brass
- 22 July 2002
Music - Sholto Byrnes on why British jazz shouldn't blow its own trumpet
Arts & Culture
Roar of approval
- 20 May 2002
Jazz - Sholto Byrnes exposes a conspiracy of niceness among the critics
