Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Why we need orchestras
China has grasped that an orchestra is more than a payroll of musicians
Bruckner: Anton … and on
Bruckner and the German soul
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough