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?
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
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
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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
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest