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Bring on the big beasts
Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
The diary of Dilyn the dog
Just us. For years and years
Cash in the Cabinet
Helpful tips from your favourite politicians on how to beat the cost of living crisis
Manager or meme?
Is Musk’s takeover of Twitter a good thing, a disaster, or just very funny?
The fate of the Moskva
Campaign Diary: The sinking of the decaying Soviet-era warship symbolises Russia’s military malaise
Guilty of Journalism
In defence of Glen Owen doing his job
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
