Just got out of a delightful concert at the Philharmonia. Elgar is ripe for a biopic: humble background, great music, great contributor to British cultural life, and a huge champion of the first great black British composer, too, for reasons I suspect were directly linked to his own background.

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I always marvel that, faced with an event they did not expect, our opinion writers can confidently lay out how things will play out from here.

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You, jaundiced and unpatriotic: oh no, England starting to labour after going ahead Me, wearing my Southgate-tinted glasses: astute by Gareth to manage the team’s fitness in the group stages.

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One of my many fogeyish opinions is that the apps basically can’t ever work for most people, and this is a big part of why the youth have less sex.

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"Western" democracies in relative decline have outsize populations of older people resentful and disappointed at how their lives turned out. Even if they are doing pretty well by objective standards, they are still resentful and disappointed.

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