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Return of the dragon

Return of the dragon

China’s Covid belligerence will only isolate it further

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Richard Cockett

Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted

There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury

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Tony Dowson

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The art of violence

High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors

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Michael Prodger

Poor conduct

Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga

Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024

On Theatre

Anne McElvoy

Religion without mercy

Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness

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Niall Gooch

Invasion literature

It couldn’t happen here. Right?

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David Scullion

Ageing gracelessly?

A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power

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Ben Sixsmith

Stories worth telling

Untold Stories (Hyperion)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Pandæmonium

Better to reign in hell than serve in government

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Robert Hutton

All gone to look for America

The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge

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Michael Henderson

Booze or muse?

Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce

On Opera

Robert Thicknesse

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