Artillery Row

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Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art

The Tory beauty contest

The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing

We are missing the important point on procurement

Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures

Doom and bloom

Live woke and die

In praise of Elon Musk

He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online

Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists

It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance

Look on our works, ye voters, and despair

Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party

The failure of the Irish nerve

Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act

The problem with petty scandals

They distract us from state failure and institutional decay

The public sector must reform or die

Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed