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(The Husband's) Secrets and Self-Perception

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I was about five minutes into the audiobook. Some mummy-mafia/schoolgate nonsense of the kind I diligently dodge. Brow furrowed, I pressed stop and Googled the title.

Liane Moriarty’sBig Little Lies.

I don’t know how it ended up on my phone, I don’t know why I kept listening, and I know without any doubt at all that it was the best...

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New music composers face the age-old question: do they write for themselves or for mass appeal?

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imageThe age-old question of whether musicians should be writing for themselves or for their audiences has no easy answer.Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji

In the following discussion, three academics explore whether it is the duty of the artist to lend to music’s survival by creating mass appeal. This is a recurring question in contemporary music review, both l...

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Trade with China and the national interest

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Trade policy is usually the eye-glazing preserve of policy wonks and public officials. Suddenly, however, it’s the epicentre of a debate that tells us much about the difficulties facing political parties as they try to reconcile potentially competing domestic and international interests. Neither of the main political parties in...

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