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How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Proud to be free?
Liberal Britain’s new blasphemy laws
The Tories haven’t a prayer
Secularism seems to grip the party that was once the embodiment of Anglicanism
Why are we supporting Ukraine?
A cautionary note about vicarious war
Sibelius: 7 symphonies and Tapiola (Decca)
A fresh, ambitious and daring approach to the familiar Finn
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
New Labour, new danger?
25 years on from the 1997 election
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
Joining the dots on sexism
Parliament’s creepy sexualised culture resurrects throwback stereotypes
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
