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The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport
The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
What Magdalen College students get wrong
It is bizarre in the extreme to focus criticism of empire on the Crown
Calm down, dear
The grim history of portraying women as mentally unstable
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
All Rhodes lead to ruin
Who was Cecil Rhodes, really?
The secret university
Jessica Douglas-Home recalls Roger Scruton’s risky but crucial work with dissident intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
The Welsh variant
Why is Cardiff actively spreading queer theory in schools?