Sol y Sombra
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
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