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Two Four star reviews in @NLebrecht's Album of the Week.
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The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran, argues Alexander Langlois.
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We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators, writes Adam McDermont.
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Even admirers of Doctor Who, current or past, might think that now is the time to retire the show, writes @alexlarman.
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“Leo Strauss had it that the rejection of “natural rights” — or call it objective truth — led ultimately to nihilism. In the age of proliferating alternative truths, AI deep fakes, and cultural malaise, it feels like Strauss was on to something.”
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What was fought for at Entebbe “was the right of every Israeli to travel without fear, and ultimately the right of citizens everywhere to make free decisions about where they lived and how they lived.”
@93vintagejones draws the line from 1976 to October 7th.
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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” As Southampton simmers and Belfast erupts in fire, Gramsci’s words weigh heavily. We are in an interregnum, a chaotic gap between a dying social order, and a new Britain that has yet to emerge, writes @SebMilbank
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“Starmer’s response to Southport rioting mobilised much of the media against him in a way few had anticipated. He went from being a dour technocrat in the pocket of the unions to something more sinister: “two-tier Keir”. And the charge did not stop with him. It quickly spread to the police and the wider criminal justice system.”
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Why did it take so long to roll Starling out to Britain's trains, asks James Hodgkinson.
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As Dartmoor's ponies face an extinction event thank to a government Quango, @JPBWFarm makes his Critic debut to argue for their protection.
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Our Monday newsletter now includes @HCH_Hill's subscriber-only Political Theatre column — all the sound and fury from the poor players strutting across Britain’s political stage.
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The influence of Entebbe, and the scores of other Israeli hostage crises, are worth remembering for the clear line that can be drawn to Israel’s attitude to the recover of the hostages taken on October 7th, and the ongoing Gaza war. @93vintagejones reflects on 50 years since the raid.
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”The problem is that the government’s approach is not simply to appeal to people’s decency, or counter the spread of harmful misinformation. In fact, its strategy has historically been to create propagandistic narratives or to suppress inflammatory truths, even where this has meant failing to prevent or punish terrible crimes.“
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The Southport riots broke Starmer’s government, writes @technopopulist: a combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal.
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The problem with train travel that frustrates James Hodkinson the most is one almost every passenger shares — and one that could be solved far more easily than you might think. The culprit is Wi-Fi, or rather, the lack of it.
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“Only a few years ago, when grazing agreements on Dartmoor lapsed, families who had farmed those commons for generations were threatened with enforcement action for carrying on as they always had.”
Yet just a few years on, here we are again, laments @JPBWFarm
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“The events of the last week, in which the trial concluded and police bodycam footage was released of the harrowing murder of Henry Nowak, have led to the English getting their own community representative in Nigel Farage.”
In one of our most-read pieces, Alex Yates writes of England' new community leader.
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“I do not want less protection for nature. I want protection that works, and one where, when it fails, the person responsible can be sacked for getting it wrong.”
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50 years after the Entebbe raid, writes @93vintagejones, Israel's most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war.
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