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A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
Christians are being persecuted in Pakistan
Blasphemy laws are tools of oppression
The death of a dream
India’s lost vision for national harmony
Against mere negativity
Politics needs a vision of the Good
Studio: The English baroque architecture of New York
Climbing around, looking up, and zooming in: the delights of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York
Must we mourn a decline in English degrees?
It does not entail the decline of English literature
Why I still travel with my Rough Guide
The series has no equal
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
Towards a right-wing Blob
Arguments are useless without institutions
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
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
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
