Features

Biting the hand that feeds them

So-called “radical” performance art is little more than a publicly-funded alliance between the art establishment and faux-rebellious poseurs

Mugged by a mud-caked spud

Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense

The curious cult of the friend of fascism

Ayn Rand’s vile philosophy was one of the crudest ever to be taken seriously, but attracts the devotion of fundamentalists for whom she could do no wrong

Populists: doing us all a favour

Don’t sneer at those who challenge the vested interests of the elite

The three circles of hell

Today’s glossy big-city party conferences are even more nightmarish than the traditional grim trips to run-down seaside resorts

Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence

The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent

Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation

Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III

Remembrance of a forgotten nation

Reminders of our country’s shared past

A modern way of mourning

Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally

The grand old man and the ingénue queen

The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch