Art
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
Art for art’s sake
A collector who bought for pleasure rather than investment
The burgeoning arts scene in Saudi Arabia
How to foster a creative art scene within the setting of state control
The plague of “street art”
It is the local council equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig
The art of experience
The great German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich deserves more attention
Battered and beguiling
Polish art should not be ashamed of being Polish
Art for cash’s sake
How to buy and sell at a profit
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
Cézanne the father
A rich exhibition is dominated by the great French impressionist
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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
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons