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What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders