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Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways

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Tom Chesshyre

People of Colour television

How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting

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David Scullion

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Thou shalt not pray?

The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime

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Lois McLatchie

Against autumn

Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes

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Ben Sixsmith

Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable

Three great novels capture a moment of change for society

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John Self

Is “progressive realism” either?

Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine

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Patrick Porter

A leadership bid you can’t refuse

Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive

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Robert Hutton

More than just noise

Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug

Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography

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Raquel Rosario Sánchez

Public sector pay

Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation

Columns

Tim Congdon

Landscapes of allusion and illusion

On the architecture of recreation

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James Stevens Curl

Murders for September

British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East

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Jeremy Black

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