Artillery Row
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
