How not to lose your marbles
Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
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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
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them