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The dating system invented by Tiny Dennis

Sacred Cows

David Butterfield

Alcohol and Islam

An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink

On Drink

Henry Jeffreys

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Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional

Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional

Scullionbait

David Scullion

Poor old Carmen

This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky

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Robert Thicknesse

X scandal

The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said

On Art

Michael Prodger

What does surrogacy say about us?

We are putting the interests of adults above those of children

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Helen Gibson

Representation gets raunchy

We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”

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Josephine Bartosch

The glorious Ninth

Relive the moments when music changed forever

Books

Norman Lebrecht

Very naughty boys

Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach

Sketch

Robert Hutton

Off with the fairies

Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked

On Opera

Robert Thicknesse

Long story short

Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are

On Cinema

Robert Hutton

Campus confidential

Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views

Features

Charlie Bentley-Astor

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