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Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)