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The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
Why can’t our media grow up?
We should be a lot more careful if war is at stake
Why would anyone vote Tory?
The Conservatives have nothing to boast about
Incels are the new shock troops
Women are not there for the taking
Tarnished beauty
FIFA is mistreating football
A world fit for humans
Both the internet and our real-world shared spaces must be improved
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Brussels sprouts protectionism
It’s no longer a dirty word in the EU
Women’s refuges should be exactly that
Biological males do not have a right to them
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
