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Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
28 hours later
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been infected with the deadly Rage Virus
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism