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A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
