Art
Inescapable crisis
Have our worn-out imaginations reached their limits?
Don’t boycott Russian culture
It damages rather than defends civilisation
Misgendering Jesus
Academic nonsense blinds us to realities of sex and faith
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
#MeToo and the death of subversive art
We need culture that takes thematic risks
The souping of Saint Vincent
The iconoclastic impulse must be curbed
Skeleton in the cupboard
Disappearing corpses, theme-park Venice and a post-Brexit smuggling operation
The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth
A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa
Weighing up the real value of art
Why galleries are now cogs in a not-so-creative industry
Country church monuments
The hidden treasures of English churches
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state