Art
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
So many art fairs, so little time
On the forums that bring together dealer and buyer
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
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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
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated