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Leoš Janáče

A riveting selection of itinerant tunes

A riveting selection of itinerant tunes

Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Norman Lebrecht

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The Book of JO’B

James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles

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Michael Murphy

A failed war on fags

The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

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Christopher Snowdon

Thank God for Brexit

The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out

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Tim Worstall

I don’t trust the British state

British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve

Columns
Sebastian Milbank

The lonely death of Henry Nowak

We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case

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Ben Sixsmith

Devolution has been a disaster

Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project

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Keir’s logorrhoea

The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?

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Robert Hutton

Parade of defeats

Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation

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Tom Jones

Middle management in the Middle East

The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership

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Jack Davey

The screaming spires

Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom

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Freddie Attenborough

The trans war on reality

Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,

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Josephine Bartosch

Orbánism is not dead

The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on

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Aleks Eror

Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure

Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie

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John Self

Whip smart

Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid

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Henry Hill

The problem with price freezes

Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think

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Henry Hill

We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror

Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications

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