Up with expertise, down with experts
Politicians should be informed by experts but not led by them
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
