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Sanctions don’t work
Why do we keep resorting to them?
This one’s a keeper
The long-lived stars of the Hunter Valley
Outward signs of invisible grace
The King’s coronation was deeply religious
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
Ghosts of British life
Remembering a forgotten past
Venice’s forgotten herald of joy
Carpaccio: Paintings and Drawings, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Britain, for better and for worse
A motley crew greeted Charles III at his coronation
The Queen’s plinth?
Let’s put this sorry landmark to patriotic use
Coronation sceptical
Against the tyranny of twee
Sex matters in medicine
Obscuring biological differences is dangerous
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests