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Is language just a tool, or can it be an end as well as a means?

The inside story of the Lib Dems in the coalition government is a brave attempt to explain where it all went wrong

The realkommerz of global trade makes it difficult to avoid enriching dictatorships and tyrants

From the birth of photography, its practitioners and artists fed off each other to find new ways of seeing

The two greatest chess prodigies of the age will soon face each other

The Prose Factory is a spirited dash through British literary history — and the many ways writers have struggled to pay their bills

Patrick Marber cuts Turgenev back to the essentials while Cumberbatch triumphs in a muddled Hamlet

The Classical Commentaries of Norman Lebrecht in Standpoint are now available as an ebook