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The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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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
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
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La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Eric Snapper
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I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street