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Riding for murdered women
Have some respect for female spaces
Bach in town
We need more classical music in public spaces
The slippery slope reality
When tolerance revises its demands upwards
What privilege is really about
Anne Frank faced problems but …
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
America is divided on Taiwan
That might be a good thing
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
The most pretentious edgelord
Lancing a Boyle
Slaughter and forgetting
Strange echoes at Bosworth Field
The heat is on
We need to rethink our use of water
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
