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The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
Dispatches from the frontlines of the culture wars
Let’s make irrational and censorious “inclusivity” guidance history
How immigration is shaking Spanish politics
Conflict over the national question threatens to derail a supposed European success story
The Irish establishment pretend the Right doesn’t exist
Conservative candidates couldn’t even get their names on the ballot
Literate, satirical, witty and romantic
Neil Hannon is one of the true greats of songwriting
An antic Dane and a lame Sloane
Two artistic directors are launching their first seasons at the South Bank
Almost too poignant to bear
Franz Schubert: 4-hand piano music (Erato)
Have we got alcoholism wrong?
A new book contends that our approach to alcohol addiction can be irrational and unhelpful
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
Sebastian Mode
Provincial arts administrator
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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
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation