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An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
