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De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Iron secretary
He didn’t quite dress up as Maggie, but he did everything but
Labour of love?
A year in the life of a “TERF” Labour Party Women’s Officer
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
Rodent utopia
Dropping out of the rat race
A singular modern master
Architect John Outram fused high-tech and tradition to create his own unique style
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
I miss the Simon Ravens
Twinkly-eyed twentieth century mischief makers have crashed out of fashion
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Most Read
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment