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Puberty

Perfect, plastic, pop princesses

The performance art of selling sterile sex

On Pop

Sarah Ditum

Cardinal win

Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one

On Cinema

Robert Hutton

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Sausage to fortune

Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe

Sketch

Robert Hutton

Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics

Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling

Artillery Row

Ian Pace

Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong

Oxford University has made a serious mistake

Artillery Row

Daniel Hannan

Cities of the mind

19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination

Podcast

The tragedy of Radio 3

The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong

On Radio

Michael Henderson

Labour has a conspiracy problem

Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas

Artillery Row

Luca Watson

Piano in wartime

War poems (Somm)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Alive and flicking

A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit

Sports

Patrick Kidd

Franco-Irish vigour

Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

Marianna in the trenches

She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface

On Radio

Ben Sixsmith

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