Art Exhibitions
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
A show’s warning from the past
Blurring the line between art and activism
The burgeoning arts scene in Saudi Arabia
How to foster a creative art scene within the setting of state control
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
The Museum’s lost craft
These great exhibitions don’t just show art — they teach us to see it
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to