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Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The lies of Sinn Fein
Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice