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Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Before and after gould
Bach’s Goldberg Variations have a rich history that far transcend its modern association with Glenn Gould
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
The false euphoria of dysphoria
Pink News presents breast removal as “pure trans joy” in a new video
Why are we supporting Ukraine?
A cautionary note about vicarious war
Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour
It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all
Rod Dreher comes home
The conscience of the New World is here in the Old
Bring on the big beasts
Music needs heavyweight champions to stand up for truth and excellence
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
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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
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration