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The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
