The world’s greatest classical music festival?
This is democracy manifest
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Saltburn and the significance of sound
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Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
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How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation