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Busoni’s legacy
The best of him is found in the piano concerto
Fraser Nelson’s immigration holdout
The columnist may still be fighting but the war has been lost
Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
Braving the sourdough
La Palombe and a very merry Christmas
A day in Scientopia
When we think in terms of science, do we lose our humanity?
The assisted suicide debate is not over
But will its supporters try and stop genuine scrutiny?
The tastes of Tallinn
British cooks could learn a lot from Estonian cuisine
The word at war
Diplomacy’s charm was the talking, not the fighting
Gyles Brandreth’s bon mots
An obsession with linguistic and historical marginalia has infected British culture
Will Syria’s Christians really be safe under HTS?
The evidence, alas, gives little cause for optimism
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
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