Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
The (bearable) weight of being
If art can help the mind, we must focus on the art
No longer the best advert for good art
If contemporary art is stuck, what is the fix?
The (too) many deaths of Saint Sebastian
Ming Wong lacks the power and sensuality of his supposed inspirations
Day after day
It is easy to lose sight of art amid personal narratives
The future is Chinese
The Western art world lays the conceptual ground for a civilisational transition, then lacks the critical nerve to digest it
Why Anglicans and art just don’t get along
An installation mimicking graffiti on the pillars of Canterbury Cathedral has caused an outcry
Puzzles, Picassos and prophecies
Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually
A puzzling trip into Potter world
In search of complexity, Hilary Lloyd makes Dennis Potter’s vast oeuvre mysterious
A show’s warning from the past
Blurring the line between art and activism
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid