Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
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Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
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Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
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Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
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Farage: I’m not worried
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Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains