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The dark side of Constable
His paintings have greater depth than fashion has supposed
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
Are they okay?
British politics and media can be hard to stomach
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
Dreams or delusions?
Why following your dreams can be a nightmare
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
Ruins of the African Renaissance
Yoweri Museveni was once hailed in Washington
A lopsided performance
Brahms: Double concerto (Sony)
An island to admire
A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man
Boom time
The burdens of being a national treasure, treacherous boy wizards and neglected English roses
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
