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From Spectator LifeCold comfort / Private schools were ruined long ago
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From Spectator LifeEleanor Roosevelt said that the role of the First Lady was not a job but rather a circumstance. For Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, it is even more oblique. She is neither the former First Lady – since Canada does not endow the prime ministerial spouse with ‘première dame’ status – nor is she wife to Justin
Private schools were ruined long ago
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Right move
Will Britain benefit from the global conservative turn?
Right move: will Britain benefit from the global conservative turn?
The world appears to be turning on its axis – and moving hard to the right. The New World is tilting hardest. In Argentina, Javier Milei is taking a chainsaw to bureaucracy. In the US, Donald Trump is poised to deport migrants, deregulate the economy and drill, baby, drill. Canada’s tendresse for the maple-syrupy liberal Justin Trudeau
Right move: will Britain benefit from the global conservative turn?
The world appears to be turning on its axis – and moving hard to the right. The New World is tilting hardest. In Argentina, Javier Milei is taking a chainsaw to bureaucracy. In the US, Donald Trump is poised to deport migrants, deregulate the economy and drill, baby, drill. Canada’s tendresse for the maple-syrupy liberal Justin Trudeau
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Our verdict on Pappano’s first months at the London Symphony Orchestra
From the magazineSir Antonio Pappano began 2024 as music director of the Royal Opera and ended as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Around the middle of the year, there was a sort of retrospective; a stock-taking, if you like, as he made the transition to this third act of his career. Warner Classics released a
A dreamy, if overly ambitious show: Silk Roads, at the British Museum, reviewed
From the magazineThe real best album of last year
From the magazineBrutal and brilliant portrait of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
From the magazineA miracle at the RSC: genuinely funny Shakespeare
From the magazineNo one will convince me that Keira Knightley can fight: Black Doves reviewed
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