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Soil

Dirty business

The myriad wonders of garden soil

Root and Branch

Hephzibah Anderson

Boris: the PM who could do no wrong

This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book

Books

Robert Hutton

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Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot

The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations

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James McSweeney

Love, death and drink

Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?

Critical Mash

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Not a dull phrase

Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht

What is Toryism for?

What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?

Editorial

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Dress code

How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)

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Robert Hutton

Conservatives listen to music too

Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile

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Adrian Nguyen

Let’s leave the Commonwealth

There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past

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Tom Jones

Murders for October

Tales from the gothic to the macabre

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Jeremy Black

Allyship on easy mode

The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”

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Victoria Smith

Labour’s economic policies are incoherent

Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions

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Adrian Pabst

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