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Franz Schmidt: 4th symphony (Berliner Philharmoniker recordings)
This is music that is going nowhere
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Royal legal cases: what if Harry and Meghan lose?
The Sussexes’ legal pursuits are less the straw that broke the camel’s back and more a gesture of defiance
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Bred to be killed
The Captive-bred lion industry has been under fire for some time and Unfair Game will only add weight to calls for its cessation
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
Letter from Washington: America’s pre-existing conditions
An unwell body politic must reckon with a sick president
My amendment achieved its aim
greater scrutiny will act as a discipline on ministers and their advisers
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia