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Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
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
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
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