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Chemistry

Killed, not “neutralised”

Killed, not “neutralised”

“neutralise”

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Theodore Dalrymple

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Tame Impala fails to impress

unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food

Eating Out
Lisa Hilton

A shameful Bill

Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration

Columns
Chris Bayliss

Going Green

A day out with Zack Polanski and friends

Columns
Fred Sculthorp

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

Columns
Victoria Smith

Pleasure and persuasion

Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)

Columns
Norman Lebrecht

The last of the fine arts

Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.

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Victoria Comstock-Kershaw
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Heart of darkness

Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna

Columns
Alexander Adams

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

Artillery Row
Bijan Omrani

Two false dawns

Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes

Artillery Row
Tom Jones

Self-inflicted misery

Super troupers

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Romeo Coates

It’s high time we banned dogs

The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts

Columns
Titania McGrath

Literary freedom is in the gutter

The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre

Artillery Row
Jenny Lindsay

Kemi always gets it right

Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.

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Robert Hutton

AI, religion and AI religion

Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom

Artillery Row
Andrew Orlowski

The disunited kingdom

The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK

Artillery Row
Charlie Napier

A frozen war?

The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran

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Alexander Langlois
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