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Issue: February 2020
Confronting a noxious new age of Jew-hate
Violence spawns from normalised bigotry. Effective Holocaust education must trace it to its origins and allow Jews to speak for themselves
Irene Lancaster
Features
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty
Giles Udy
Screen
A marriage of Brahms and Wagner
Before his journey into atonality, Schoenberg composed the surprisingly accessible "Verklärte Nacht"
Jonathan Gaisman
Music
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
David Cox
Features
Auschwitz’s antechamber
The point of departure for condemned French Jews was the banal banlieue of Drancy, outside Paris
Rosie Whitehouse
Features
Sticks, stones and lawsuits
The Conservatives may be in government, but the influence of the censorious trans lobby is growing not abating
Kathleen Stock
Features
Speaking up for female eunuchs
The woes of “detransitioners” are a warning: treating children with gender dysphoria is riskier than zealots admit
Helen Joyce
Features
Internal adventures
Fans of George Eliot are celebrating her bicentenary
Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Critique
Special affects
The National finds a niche in staging literary adaptations while Shakespeare returns to school in the Donmar's Teenage Dick
Mark Lawson
Theatre
Tricky triumph
Democracy triumphed in December’s election, but Scotland remains a significant Tory dilemma
Simon Heffer
Politics
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board