Franz Welser-Möst
Savour the silence
The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Playing by numbers
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Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions