Lieder
Will anyone follow the Lieder?
Other singers presented Lieder recitals; Fischer-Dieskau personified the art form
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working