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George Osborne: Midwife of Reform
Cameron’s Chancellor did more than most to allow Farage’s party to triumph
Chapel, chanting and chips
Visit these extraordinary communities before they disappear
A writer we should all read
There is only one way for a writer to escape: to release experience into prose
The decline of the great literary name
Where are the Don Quixotes and the Anna Kareninas of the modern age?
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
AI of the beholder
Instead of destroying the arts, artificial intelligence will redeem them
Why does this record exist?
Wilhelm Furtwängler: 2nd symphony (Chandos)
The Nazi hunter
Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer peeled away the official narrative to reveal the Holocaust to his countrymen
Uncork the demon
The demonisation of drink has overreached reason
On the bull’s side
To appreciate bullfighting is to admire the bull
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.