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The Russians aren’t coming
New music was not officially muted in the Soviet Union. It just got left at home, says Norman Lebrecht
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another