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A riveting selection of itinerant tunes
Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)
Elegy for a lost world
Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer
The railway children’s later life
A new production of The Railway Children is a grand British day out
Going Dutch
On the pleasures of learning an unsung language
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
The bibliophobe barbarians
How to deal with the legacy of physical books in academic libraries?
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
The Conservatives must clean their rooms
Conservative MPs appear to have forgotten that improvement starts at home
The National Library of Scotland is a national embarrassment
Dissent is marginalised amid establishment sycophancy
Children of the revolution
How are culture wars won?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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 torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone