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Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
