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Ruffling feathers
A new book on rural Britain takes flak for listening to the “wrong” people
The problem with career civil servants
Officials have little incentive to deliver
The artist, naked and alone
I wrote a novel to expose the shallowness of the gallery system, but my biggest target was myself
The meaning of life itself
Sir Thomas Beecham: Complete stereo recordings (Warner)
End of a bullfighting era
Morante may now retire, weeping like Alexander because there are no more lands to conquer
The polish of Cary Grant and Prince Aly Khan
There is a world of difference between fashion and style
Olo? YOLO
A new colour has been discovered to exist, but also kind of doesn’t
Twilight of the Canadian boomer
Boomer Laurentianus is enjoying a long soak in managed decline
In praise of private policing
We should be willing to pay more for less crime
What have galleries got against British art?
Our curators are embarrassed by our own cultural treasures
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran