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?
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
