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The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society by Emily Tamkin (Harper, 2020)
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Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
