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Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands