Giving up my flugel was a blow – but I found the best way to do it

A meal at buzzing Rovi is a rollercoaster of flavours – full of clever twists

‘People used to look at me suspiciously and say, did you really take this?’

Review: The Gift, at Park Theatre

Review: An Interrogation, at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs

Michael White’s classical news: Arthur Oldham; Benjamin Britten; William Walton; Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky

Bona contention: how gay men survived post-war Britain

How MP described as an ‘aristocratic Socialist and cowboy dandy’ shocked the Commons

From Slough House to Shake Shack: Slow Horses film crews close off Camden High Street

William Tell is oh-so-silly – and much the better for it

Grooves: Tiffany, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Femi Kuti, Johnny Lloyd; Joshua Radinis

Canal knowledge: an adventure through the waterways of Venice

Review: The Lonely Londoners, at Kiln Theatre

Review: A Good House, at Royal Court Theatre

Review: Kyoto, @Soho Place

Michael White’s classical news: Pierre Boulez; Kaija Saariaho; Aida; Carducci Quartet

From Procktor to Picasso: kick-off for the year

How David Pleat became one of football’s most on-the-ball managers

Clues to new Slow Horses character as film crews return to Camden

Cold comforts: hot jazz for this mid-winter