Out with the Old Masters?
Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
Opening up the British Museum
Honesty about how exhibits were acquired is a necessary first step in addressing our imperial past
Battle of the bells and the boutique hotel
Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations