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Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
Bringing the world into focus
The maverick genius of Thomas Sowell
False hope and online therapy
What the cloying advertorials conceal
A woman for all seasons
A rare brave voice in the House of Lords
The humanities hit back
Science has ventured beyond its proper territory
Is a new Eurozone crisis in sight?
Dark clouds gather over the European financial landscape
Hard lessons in life
Novel gender identities and orientations allow people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship
The Tories’ phony peace
The real battle of ideas will begin when the party’s time in office reaches the end of the road
Radical chic charities
The madness of giving activist charities public money to oppose government policy
Speaking English is colonial terrorism
In fact, what’s so good about speech anyway?
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
