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Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
