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Biden’s NATO rebuff

Why did the US snub Ben Wallace?

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Eliot Wilson

Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga

Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024

On Theatre

Anne McElvoy

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What is Toryism for?

What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?

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One small step for Jenrick…

…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride

Sketch

Robert Hutton

Dancing with Beethoven

Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Butchering La bohème

Opera is “relatable” already

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Alexandra Wilson

Blogosphere bubble

Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak

Eating In

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The right-on, left-wing oppressors

A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right

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Nina Power

Labour’s economic policies are incoherent

Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions

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Adrian Pabst

The case for Badenoch

She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness

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Tim Dawson

Why Europeans don’t get Elon

Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand

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Sebastian Milbank

Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust

The law is too indulgent of political charities

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Peter Applebee

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