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A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
