People’s Republic of China
Our enemies bring our friends closer
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show