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A rare victory for proportion
The connotations of words can depend on their context, numpties
A penetrating performance
Shostakovich 15th symphony (BR-Klassik)
Thoughts on a crisis
A vision of a salvageable democracy built squarely on an orthodox account of the supremacy of political institutions
The regime that set the stage for Nazism
The question is not about Weimar, but what went wrong with the Germany that preceded it
The Philistines versus the Pharisees
How the rise of the meritocrats tore society in two
Strings attached
How politics orchestrates contemporary classical music
When will they ever learn?
Silicon Valley did not need a Victorian transport system to get it started
Treading the path of enlightenment
The spiritual beauty of Plotinus and unity
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
Black Bag is refreshingly good
The characters are well-drawn and every performance is terrific
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship