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Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time