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Racing is being regulated out of existence
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It’s time to reclaim tapioca pudding
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End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion
End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and ‘visibility’ events. Its expansion
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RIP to new music’s gentle, smiley radical
Danish composer Per Norgard – whose death at the age of 92 was announced this morning – was a towering presence in European new music, and the shine-bright timbres and heady narrative drive of his eight symphonies posed crucial questions about what it meant to be a symphonist during the late 20th century. In 2000
Those remaking Threads mustn’t soften the horror
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A lovely album: Saint Leonard’s The Golden Hour reviewed
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A remarkable story: The Salt Path reviewed
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Everyone should see the Globe’s brilliant new production of The Crucible
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Why is the BBC making stuff up about Jane Austen?
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Anyone irritated by Springsteen’s speeches hasn’t been paying attention
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