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The people’s captain

The people’s captain

What our politics can learn from Kevin Sinfield

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Anthony Broxton

March of the guys

How did one honorific colonise our language?

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Michael Duggan

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In defence of hereditary peers

Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract

Sounding Board

Marcus Walker

Borientalism

Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp

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Robert Thicknesse

Izzy Hardcastle

Ornament of the book-world

Arty Types

D.J. Taylor

Unionism has to wise up

In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline

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Lee Reynolds

Why can’t there be more vampires?

Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place

On Opera

Robert Thicknesse

50 years ago…

Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull

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Boris Starling

Tough on the causes of non-crime

A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents

Scullionbait

David Scullion

Impressive yet unmoving

Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

It is good to challenge kids

That which makes us anxious can also make us strong

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Anna Richards

People of Colour television

How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting

Scullionbait

David Scullion

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