Artillery Row
The arts are being crippled by conformity
A new report shows that the last place to find rebellion is the arts world
Party like it’s 1848!
Across the continent, nationalism is back
How Reform could block migrant hotels
Difficult but not impossible
VE’ll meet again
The government’s exciting plans for patriotic displays of Britishness
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
The voters were the biggest losers in Australia
Triumph for the Labor Party means triumph for mediocrity
How to enact a Great Repeal
We need a deregulatory agenda, but it has to be done right
Take the cap off
Why do child benefits stop at a point lower than our replacement rate?
Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic
The best argument against multiculturalism is staring you in the face
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves