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To catch a culture thief
A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up
The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra
The Larghetto’s organic optimism transcends present woes and looks to bright eternity
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Is Covid a Christmas or a disaster movie?
Yippee-nu-xi, Omicronner!
Boris must act on immigration
It is the issue that most concerns his supporters
Howdy, partner
On the least erotic noun in the English language
The longest night of my life
Researchers should re-think prescribing magic mushrooms for depression
The Dresser Undressed
The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves