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A little respect

A little respect

Hancock’s concessions represent a major victory for Graham Brady

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Graham Stewart

How dark can humour be?

Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human

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Andy Owen

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Wragg must go

He should resign or be fired

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Ben Sixsmith

Sugar, sex and sacrifice

It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint

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Heather Tomlinson

Plain Janeites

For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective

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Henry Oliver

Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful

Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction

On Radio

Michael Henderson

You can’t judge a book by its cover

All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue

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John Self

Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism

A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain

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Sam Bidwell

The emptiness of hype

A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm

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Niall Gooch

Left and right hooks

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands

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Robert Hutton

The Roman Republic is worth thinking about

The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism

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Elizabeth Heverin

Essential all-embracing warmth

Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

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