The passion of the Monkey Christ
The ubiquitous mockery of a botched restoration offered a revealing insight into modern cultural decline
The doctors’ danse macabre
Assisted suicide is not enlightened but a step towards a new dark age
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism