Columns
Celestria Parfit
Culture could not survive without such austere archivists
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
Jesus Christ was a trans woman
It should have been obvious all along
Work and wine don’t mix
Sadly, temperance is far better for the bottom line
The pornification of everything
In today’s dating market, women who would prefer porn practices kept out of their bedrooms have little negotiating power
Uganda’s horrific anti-homosexuality law
Christians must stand against the Church of Uganda over its support for a horrific law
Tech bro summer
Can AI save Rishi’s bacon?
The art of spin
Spin bowling remains the highest art form in the most beautiful sport
Oars and roars
Watching rowing is thirsty work
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
