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Shostakovich ReconsideredDmitry Shostakovich's memoirs, Testimony, `related to and edited by Solomon Volkov', have been the subject of fierce debate since their publication in 1979. Was Testimony a forgery, made up by an impudent impostor, or was it the deathbed confession of a bent, but unbroken, man? Even now, years after the fall of the communist regime, a coterie of well placed Western musicologists have regularly raised objections to Testimony, hoping with each attack to

rather than the Renaissance

the liberty loathing

acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe

hoping with each attack to undermine the picture of Shostakovich presented in his memoirs that of a man of enormous moral stature

“Melanie Phillips has been one of the brave and necessary voices of our time

DMITRY FEOFANOV a lawyer and pianist

requiring her to break away not only from her parents but also from the people she had seen as her wider political family

mapping out the threats and opportunities as the world descends into Disorder

a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking' John Gray

The first will be an Indian history of a British sport - cricket which will be written in his usual animated and highly informed way

Watermelons shows how the scientific method has been sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism

He delves into the background of the organisations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda