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When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief
The Conservatives should be put out of their misery
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism