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Will Sinn Fein paint the town green?
The nationalist party may triumph in the Stormont elections, but it could prove a hollow victory
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
