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Grigoras Dinicu

A riveting selection of itinerant tunes

A riveting selection of itinerant tunes

Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Norman Lebrecht

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The Book of JO’B

James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles

Artillery Row
Michael Murphy

A failed war on fags

The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

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Christopher Snowdon

Thank God for Brexit

The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out

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Tim Worstall

I don’t trust the British state

British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

The lonely death of Henry Nowak

We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case

Columns
Ben Sixsmith

Will capitalism end capitalism?

Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems

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Steve Loftus
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Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover

Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty

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Michael Henderson

The welfare state of things

Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state

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Carry on, matron

The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards

Features
Sebastian Milbank

Leading us a not- so-merry dance

Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge

On Theatre
Alexander Larman

There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham

The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them

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Elliot Keck

Cry sod Harry, England and St George

Why aren’t people proud to be English?

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

Who will pound longest?

America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?

Artillery Row
Eliot Wilson

Pricing out the young

Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.

Artillery Row
Jethro Elsden

No, rent controls don’t work

Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses

Artillery Row
Maxwell Marlow

Won over by a stately Italian saga

A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off

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Robert Hutton
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