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Reflections on the rubble of the ancients
An enthusiasm for ruins is far from universal
Equity for all
With all this do-goodery, it is a wonder that the company has time for anything else
Over her head
This was a clear U-turn, made on a busy road in broad daylight, with hazard lights flashing
Nick Clegg was right to enter government
Avoiding difficult decisions is not morally superior
In defence of Gary Lineker
There is a difference between bad posts and crimes
How the Conservatives can attack Reform
Farage and friends’s economic policies are fiscally irresponsible
A spiritual coming out
Rod Dreher’s “woo book” is a book the modern world needed
Today’s care visa holders, tomorrow’s care recipients
We are subsidising a system that perpetuates its own problems
Painters, legacies and lawyers
Money turns art, and the control of art, febrile
Questions of life and death
BBC Radio 3’s soporific pap is the musical equivalent of assisted dying
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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own