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Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)