Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
Remembering The Merchant of Prato
A vivid picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
A worthy heiress to Princess Ida
Where has originality and character gone in the art of Violin playing?
Cancel Culture is coming for you
Not speaking up in the hope that it will pass you by is an illusion. It won’t save you
Saying racists are racist is better than more silence
Twitter bans and self-denying ordinances won’t erase anti-semitism
A city of SpAds
Giving up on London is not a capital idea
Letter from Washington: Albert Murray and the case for complexity
A dissenting opinion in a revolutionary moment
Potty-mouthed politicians
Having the support of constituents is now secondary to Twitter popularity
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse