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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?