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A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
