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Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights
Out with the in-crowd
Barely surving a nightmarish camp
The unstoppable rise of geek culture
The cult of Elon Musk reveals some horrible truths about our non-virtual world
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
May: Letters to the Editor
The campaign to cancel Seeley is grotesque
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
