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Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Sharp dressed man
Nick Cave sounds as good as ever
The shows should go on
Would the Queen want us to cancel events?
Are the Left the REAL racistz?
Right-wingers adopting identity politics are doing the bidding of the left
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
“Thank you, ma’am, for everything”
On the death of Queen Elizabeth II
In the shadow of the crown
The inefficient paid tribute to the dignified
John Nash is overrated
Against neat-freak planning
France and the Queen
A sense of what was lost
Old and new
Regenerating existing neighbourhoods vs. attracting international attention: the two most prominent current approaches to urban planning
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
