Ceramics
The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast