Art
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
The (bearable) weight of being
If art can help the mind, we must focus on the art
An ode to situated exhibitions
Art is inseparable from the poetics of place
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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
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics