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A tawdry death imitating art
Francis Bacon’s turbulent love for George Dyer is visible on the canvas
News from nowhere
National Conservatism Conference diary: our brave reporter encounters globalisation in Brussels
Labour is failing women
How have we reached a point where a former shadow women and equalities minster doesn’t know what a woman is?
A controversial opening
I love the idea of the Vagina Museum, I just don’t love this vagina museum
How modern wars end
History offers options rather than predictions for how the Russia-Ukraine war could end
We should open our borders to the victims of Putin
Immigration is a potent weapon in the war on authoritarianism
The ideology that refuses to die
US neoconservatism is enjoying an unmerited afterlife in the UK
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
Moral panic over Ukraine risks nuclear war
Putin is not Hitler, but if we lose perspective we risk pushing him to reckless extremes
No, THIS is hardcore: UK82 remembered 40 years on
What happened to the early eighties world of doc martins and Mohawks?
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
The impoverishment of British values
Modern moral codes cannot define the totality of Britishness
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
