Sabine Devielhe
Exceptional performance by a cancelled conductor
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (Erato)
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English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
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A failed war on fags
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An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
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Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Worstall’s Corollary
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Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Restoration romps
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The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics