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Letter from Washington: Lucky Joe
The surprising continuity of America’s Covid response undermines Biden’s central boast
Krzysztof Penderecki: Credo (Hänssler Classics)
The climaxes are sensational, some of the strongest music Penderecki ever created; we may never see its like again
What’s in a name?
Dominic Hilton laments the various lunacies surrounding his name
Zooming Windows
The George Formby Society attempts a ukulele world record, online
The 2021 Brexit smackdown
A recent book launch hosted by Policy Exchange provided the perfect opportunity for a Frost, Gove, Rudd and Mandelson rematch
Reagan is not the answer to Republican woes
In response to Daniel Johnson’s March feature, Henry George argues that a return to Reaganism is not the future of American conservatism
The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
The Police Bill isn’t the threat to democracy the Left say it is
If you’re looking for the enemies of free speech, you’re looking the wrong way, argues Robert Poll
Our very British brand of totalitarianism
While sales of “1984” went through the roof this past year, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision is much more likely to come true than George Orwell’s
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
