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AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change