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The dissident rebels of the art world
We must resist cancel culture and defend freedom of artistic expression
Beethoven/Schnittke: Violin concertos (BIS)
This fabulous interpretation of the Beethoven concerto is one of the records of the year
The Thing: 40 years on
Left to freeze by Thatcher’s censors, The Thing has finally been recognised as John Carpenter’s best film
Clap for the modern gods
Once people prayed for rain or for sun. Now, we pray for our NHS
The best of English reds
With English Wine Week taking place on 19-27 June, why not explore the brave new world of Pinot Noir from Kent, Sussex, Essex and beyond?
Adapt and survive
Tim Abrahams says fans of Modernism should accept sensitive redevelopment
Party political
Claudia Savage-Gore loses sleep plotting a stealth-lavish birthday party
Stop infantilising women
The WHO seems hellbent on making the stress of pregnant women’s lives even greater
He won’t take the knee
Has Robert Peel been reincarnated as the Chief Constable for Manchester?
Covid-segregated schooling
Un-masked children are already being kept apart from their masked peers
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
