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Mahler’s pioneers
Walter Goehr and Willem Mengelberg revive Mahler’s genius
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then