High art
Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Nero: zero or hero?
Despite everything we thought we knew, Nero may just possibly be regarded as a half-decent emperor
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
Monuments to self-expression
Serenhedd James finds folly and ruin frequently go together in Rory Fraser’s new release: Follies
Priests and palaces
The Archbishops don’t realise the significance of the church building
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
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
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable