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German classical music

Bruckner: Anton … and on

Bruckner and the German soul

On Music

Norman Lebrecht

Silk Road splendour

The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels

Columns

Christopher Pincher

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Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader

I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness

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Nicolas Hausdorf

Over the line

No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth

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Jean Hatchet

A macabre sense of humour

Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Opposing big government means opposing climate change

We need a market-led course to net zero

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John Flesher

The great migration

What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?

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Benedict Spence

Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.

The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust

Books

Daniel Johnson

Twitter has always been toxic

Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness

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Victoria Smith

A craven surrender

The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power

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Yuan Yi Zhu

Is this just fantasy?

Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care

Country Notes

Patrick Galbraith

She wants to be in America

🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶

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Robert Hutton

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