British culture
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
Sadistic austerity
All that seems to unite us is miserliness
A modern way of mourning
Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium