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
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
