The 1980s are calling
Liberal complacency has left us unprepared to face the crisis in Ukraine
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unconquered by a
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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
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind