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Dressing for dinner

On the salad course

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The price of victory

Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war

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David Smith

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Bonfire of the verities

Plotting a path through the new politics

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J. C. D. Clark

Poor conduct

Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

The year in military history

2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history

Books

Peter Caddick–Adams

A wealth of glorious objects and images

A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure

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James Stevens Curl

The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions

Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments

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Tim Worstall

November Letters

Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism

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The fables of Davos Man

Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom

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Sam Buntz

Izzy Hardcastle

Ornament of the book-world

Arty Types

D.J. Taylor

A nuclear nothing?

Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?

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David Blagden

Living in the Eighties

An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts

On Art

Ella Nixon

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