Art
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
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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
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read