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The Talich Quartet

A riveting selection of itinerant tunes

A riveting selection of itinerant tunes

Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Norman Lebrecht

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The Book of JO’B

James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles

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A failed war on fags

The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under

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Christopher Snowdon

Thank God for Brexit

The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out

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I don’t trust the British state

British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve

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The lonely death of Henry Nowak

We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case

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No taxation on expatriation

With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous

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Women who play along …

It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.

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The problem of midwit misinformation

Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth

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Classic is back

Why contemporary art may be losing ground

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A day out at Unite the Kingdom 

Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair

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The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss

Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent

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Empire State Madrid

Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital

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Britain’s next moral panic

Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another

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