artists
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
No second coming for the arts
Labour will finish the Tories’ work of destroying the arts – only “better”
A movement to where?
What, if anything, is “right-wing” art?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders