The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Nemesis comes to Charlottesville
As Americans gleefully melt down statues of Confederate leaders, they may soon discover that iconoclasm is no road to civic peace
The lives of other apes
How to think about our hominid cousins
The Queen’s plinth?
Let’s put this sorry landmark to patriotic use
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
The souping of Saint Vincent
The iconoclastic impulse must be curbed
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
