The Critics
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Atticus updated
A new Mockingbird is masterful
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Music monsters
The perverted predators of pop
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise