Musicians
Classical musicians should spread their wings
We need more collaboration and more experimentation for classical music to flourish
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
Roy Orbison in Blue Velvet
A pop song can be transformed by use, or it can split the world open
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
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If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
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Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
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Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The malicious and the mad
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The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
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