British culture
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
