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Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
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The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form