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Why I “took the knee”
Following a brief loss of balance in a London watering hole I ‘took the knee’ – but that doesn’t detract from the symbolism
Valentin Silvestrov: 7th symphony (Naxos)
Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
Waiting for – anything
Krapp’s last tape might these days be a collection of WhatsApps and stored Instagram images, muses Anne McElvoy
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
The legacy of Vanity Fair’s caricatures
Each cartoon had a story to tell about eminent figures in Victorian and Edwardian society
Inside university Marxist societies
One student’s escape from a campus cult
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide