Alfred Brendel
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
Somehow Alfred Brendel managed to appear both deadly serious and not serious at all
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
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How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing