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The hardest word
The Catholic Church is resisting huge pressure to apologise for its involvement in indigenous cruelty
Benin’s bronze ambassadors
What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts
David Hockney: An oyster without grit
An oyster without grit
The guns of Brixton
I listened to somebody shoot a man twice in the head
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
Heaven and hell
Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
June 2021: Letters to the Editor
Seasonal agricultural work is much more skilled and difficult than many realise
Trophy cabinets
Thomas Woodham-Smith meets the go-to man for classic English furniture
Burning the books
Should writers be allowed to destroy their own work?
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
