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Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
My Hunk of Destiny
A tale of love and levelling up
Muh imperialism
Gianni Infantino’s childish relativism
From Lima with love
Around the world to watch the bullfights
Must we ban Russia Today?
People can decide whether to watch it for themselves
The Greek prince
Philip the foreigner and the press
Child sexual abuse and the seal of confession
New legislation will not help children
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Reconstructing a self-destructive life
One thing in Roth’s messy existence makes him worth our time: his writing
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
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
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages