Banksy
Art for oligarchs’ sake
Divorced from aesthetic considerations, the modern art business is a refuge for the uber-rich
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction