Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott: Echoes of Life (DG)
Alice Sara Ott gives Frederic Chopin’s preludes a “dazzling” contemporary twist
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
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Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
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Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
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The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
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How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear