Polish Culture
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
The new men’s rights movement
For gender-critical feminists, TRAs can sometimes feel like MRAs with a modern twist
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division