Artillery Row
How artivism captured the ICA
If the Institute of Contemporary Arts wants to be in the vanguard of “social justice” activism should it retain its charitable status?
Don’t break laws to make laws
Why is a Tory government proposing to extend the scope of the Human Rights Act?
Show no mercy: The tragedy in Xinjiang
Can anything save the Uighurs?
A walk in the park
Can late Elizabethans do without Victorian vistas?
Decadence in the time of corona: A conversation with Ross Douthat
The New York Times columnist updates his arguments for a country rocked by pandemic and protest
Why do conservatives think they are winning?
The right needs to understand that progressive intolerance is a strength, not a weakness
Cui Bono
Imperial College’s Operation Historyhide is a go-go
Corto Maltese – graphic novels on a higher plane
The faithful translation of Hugo Pratt’s graphic novels introduces his hero to the wider audience he deserves
Philharmonia – fact is richer than this fiction
Channel 4’s new series set in a Paris orchestra hits multiple wrong notes
Breaking the UK-EU deadlock
The big concession to get talks moving is about to be made over the heads of Barnier and Frost
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology