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Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day