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Bangkok’s revolt remains bloodless, for now
Is the tide turning against Thailand’s oligarchy?
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)
If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
Free speech, councillors and new disqualification rules
Proposed local government requirements would greatly impinge on freedom of speech
Letter from Washington: Biden delivers
2020 isn’t 2016 and Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
The Portuguese at home and overseas
How has Portugal managed its imperial identity?
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
Shellshocked: Lebanon’s revolution falters again
Lebanon protests are futile as opposition lacks a coherent strategy
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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
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics