Artillery Row
Mental illness does not fit your easy narrative
Sanitisation is not acceptance
The culture war is all around you
It is the philosophical water in which we swim
Why Khan’t our media do its job?
Piers Morgan shouldn’t have been soft on the former Pakistan PM
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Murders for December
From Sweden to Bombay
British museums are failing visitors
Keep the exhibitions open!
Against Nigeria’s blasphemy laws
No one should be killed over their beliefs
The false choice between housing and wildlife
Biodiversity targets are killing housebuilding. They needn’t
Places to be
A wonderful book about English eccentrics impresses James Stevens Curl
The blue blazer
Liz Truss’s story is a salutary tale
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty