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Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Ferreting baht’at
There are few rabbits to be found on Ilkley Moor
The art of introspection
This gathering of Van Gogh’s self-portraits is as unsettling as it is impressive
Alexander Scriabin: Mazurkas (Hyperion)
Rediscovering the patriarch of Russian piano composition
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
More human than the humanists
Church attendance is on the rise among non-Christian, non-believing millennials
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
