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Policing the spirit of the law
Could a Minister for Hospitality save our pubs?
The support being offered to the hospitality sector is far from adequate, and many businesses are falling through the cracks
The black hole of online censorship
The removal of Parler from app stores has made it clear that online opinions exist at the sufferance of those providing the soap box
Lockdown sceptics are society’s gadflies
‘I can’t agree with Alistair Haimes that the arrival of vaccines should change how we feel about lockdowns’
In defence of lockdown sceptics
Alistair Haimes is wrong – the facts against a third lockdown haven’t changed
The legacy of David Bowie: five years, what a surprise
Alexander Larman on why the late, great David Bowie remains such a totemic and iconic figure in his life
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives
Copland, Nielsen, MacMillan: Clarinet concertos (Delphian)
Of all clarinet concertos, including Mozart’s, Aaron Copland’s is Norman Lebrecht’s favourite by a Siamese smile
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 3.0
In the third instalment of his diary, Dominic watches a man doing ballet on top of the British Ambassador’s Residence, and deals with his rude neighbour
Friends old and new
Thomas Woodham-Smith doesn’t collect, he simply accumulates stock