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On kids and imagination
We don’t have to teach them how to play
It’s time to build prisons
Inadequate facilities hurt everyone
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
Living the high life
Empathising with pill-popping Pandora
Against Brown-nosers
We should hear less from former PMs
The failing state we’re in
Backlog Britain needs urgent reform
Democracy without a demos
We have to overcome post-1989 illusions
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
How to walk around London
It is never just walking
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
