Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
