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Heitor Villa-Lobos: Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival
July 2021: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens says the West was bullied into using the name “Beijing” instead of “Peking”
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Don’t legalise assisted suicide
British politicians have turned down assisted suicide legislation several times before. They must do so again
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
The human rights era failed us
More than 70 years into the human rights era, the world is no more peaceful or tolerant
Allies at war
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British contribution to the Allied victory
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Gyles Brandreth’s bon mots
An obsession with linguistic and historical marginalia has infected British culture
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
The anti-growth cabal
The standard EU charger will plug up growth and tie innovation in knots
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
