Obesity
Fat people can’t be happy
The lies of ‘fat activists’ are making us unhappy and sick
The BAME killer – why Covid-19 is so serious for ethnic minorities
Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
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