aesthetics
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
In praise of people’s parks
A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected
The ugly truth
Genuine art needs more material support
Weighing up the real value of art
Why galleries are now cogs in a not-so-creative industry
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
