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Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
CNN’s optical delusion
How American progressives get “TERF Island” wrong
The EU’s appetite for power
What has Europe learned from Roe v Wade?
The coming Tory crack-up
The MPs are at odds with the members
Dodgy deals and a suspect stele
There is an infinite number of ways of conning collectors, investors and even institutions too
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
Don’t buffer the truth about censorship zones
This is an attack on freedom and choice
Small wonder
Nithurst Farm, in West Sussex, plays games with classical architecture
The Weimar Republic
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Weimar Republic and whether its collapse blinds us to its achievements
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
