On Art
The future is Chinese
The Western art world lays the conceptual ground for a civilisational transition, then lacks the critical nerve to digest it
Art must be rescued from identity
We should celebrate artists for what they do, not who they are
Puzzles, Picassos and prophecies
Untangling this jumble is aesthetically pleasurable, but vexing intellectually
A puzzling trip into Potter world
In search of complexity, Hilary Lloyd makes Dennis Potter’s vast oeuvre mysterious
A show’s warning from the past
Blurring the line between art and activism
The life and death of Queer Art
Queer culture turns to nostalgia and death
Transhumanist trauma with Ed Atkins
The transhumanist optimism of virtualisation that characterised recent decades has hard yet fleshly limits
The painter with the X factor
Be careful what you wish for
The fading clout of the scholarly connoisseur
Does quality matter today when considering art?
Painters, legacies and lawyers
Money turns art, and the control of art, febrile
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Saint Nicola
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On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet