British Art
The art of brotherly rivalry
Two artists shaped by differing attitudes to modernity
Bricks and mortarboards
An architect who makes a virtue of the laconic
Men of the cloth
Resurrecting the lost art of the painter-stainers
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
The sad state of British film
Why do we accept comfortable irrelevance?
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill