Art
Studio: Election Artists
Michael Prodger takes a look at the artists who paint politics
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
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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
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world