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Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
Today in making Matt Hancock look good
Meanwhile in the Caino Chief of Staff timeline …
Post-Colonial
When will we get serious about cyberwarfare?
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Napoleon’s shifting reputation
Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart about Napoleon’s reputation
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
He’s not the Messiah!
Robert Thicknesse ruminates on The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko
An affront to justice
New safeguards are needed after the Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
