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Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
“Are you now or have you ever been a gender critical feminist?”
Must we all be aligned with the values of Stonewall?
Soft power has little substance
The foreign policy concept has been used as an excuse for declinist myth-making
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess