Dante
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
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unconquered by a
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Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Infamous five
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Jorge Luis Borges
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I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem