Studio: Election Artists
Michael Prodger takes a look at the artists who paint politics
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party