Benjamin Britten
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
WNO’s curtain call?
Behind the ovations for Britten’s masterpiece looms the death of opera in Wales
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
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unconquered by a
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Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
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
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Calypso and carnage
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Price caps and political pygmies
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Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
The hitch with the Hitch
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