aesthetics
The (bearable) weight of being
If art can help the mind, we must focus on the art
Is the Tory Boy dying out?
Political allegiance amongst young right-wingers is increasingly determined by aesthetics, not ideology
New towns must be good towns
New towns of the future must be beautiful and successful communities
The problem of online ugliness
It is not good for us to surround ourselves with so much unattractive media
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?