Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
Walking the path of the stupidly rich
Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato