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Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Post election rundown
Three very sleepy men discuss the election result
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
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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
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture