British culture
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
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
