Amin Jaffer
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
