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A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself