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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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common