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Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
The beauty of Brutalism
Durham’s concrete masterpiece needs love, not the wrecking ball
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country