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The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)