Art
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
Bits and pieces
Can the digital age can demystify the art world?
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations