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Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
April: Letters to the Editor
Edinburgh University is dependent on Chinese money
Who actually got Brexit done?
Mark Francois’s Brexit book is a timely corrective to the Cummings narrative
In Sparta: how Brexit happened
ERG leaders, and Rob Hutton, reflect on how the Tories almost collapsed over MV3
Metamorphosen (Chandos)
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy
Til trans do us part
Trans widows deserve legal protection for their right to consent
Descent into hell
In Venezuela, socialism’s gruesome legacy is no academic question
#UkraineWillResist
Will hashtag activists start the next world war?
Ukraine: where are we?
Once month since the invasion, Moscow’s numbers don’t add up
Can our duties set us free?
Jacob Phillips’ new book challenges the assumption that freedom lies in unconstraint
The joy of old English
Interest in language was once the domain of antiquarians and clergymen
The EU must respect Britain’s borders
Freedom of movement for EU youth would threaten our security for no obvious gain
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Je suis Charlie, ten years on
We must never succumb to the jihadi’s veto
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
