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St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
