Art
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
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
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
