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It’s easy to make the case against Aunty, and fun too
December/January: Letters to the Editor
Carry on, pomp and circumstance and cultural Marxism
Welfare statesmen
Struggling ex–Prime Ministers have been spotted queueing outside of Parliament
Crisis? What crisis?
Maybe Old England isn’t done?
Potemkin politburo
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
The state we’re in
Britain isn’t working any more
Beam me up Rishi
Tory Leadership Contest II: The Wrath of Boris
44 days later
Post apocaliztic horror
Lizerdammerung
Notes from the bunker
Have I got bad news for Liz
The format is getting a bit tired
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
