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The last jubilee?
Many of us will never live to see a jubilee again — what will sustain the Windsors without spectacle?
A vision of victimhood
Feminists have to do better in the fight against trans ideology
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
Did prayer decide the Battle of Goose Green?
The expedition to take back the Falkland Islands was riskier than we might think
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws