Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
