Caroline Shaw
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Arirang (Orchid)
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Out of the equation
Full equation sheets are bad for learning but good for helping students to pretend to understand
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties