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Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
