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The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Bangkok’s revolt remains bloodless, for now
Is the tide turning against Thailand’s oligarchy?
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)
If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
Free speech, councillors and new disqualification rules
Proposed local government requirements would greatly impinge on freedom of speech
Letter from Washington: Biden delivers
2020 isn’t 2016 and Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
The Portuguese at home and overseas
How has Portugal managed its imperial identity?
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
In defence of Elon Musk
Open debate might be messy but it is essential
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
