Art
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired
The cathedral and the museum
With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
The children of Terezín
The human will triumph over the technological in culture
Tove Jansson’s humane vision
A major Paris exhibition highlights timeless themes of the Finnish artist’s ouvre
Frans Hals’ sense of fun
A delightful display of portraiture at the National Gallery
Why do we persist with Opera?
Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
The curse of “TERF”
The term is intended to dehumanise dissenting women
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
Why levelling up failed
We must think local in order to foster growth
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
