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Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano works (Ondine)
One would never imagine Stalinist oppression was raging all around her
The leftist who saved Britain
Both Blair and Biden ceded power to left wing rivals; only one was a success…
Terrorism for thee but not for me?
Whilst truckers are treated like criminals, green activists are running riot
Revolutions and revelations
An epic bike ride from London to Tehran sheds light on links between the East and West
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
Devil’s music
“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Star stuck
Should we still care about Michelin stars?
Imperial misdemeanours
Getting at the truth about T H Huxley
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
