Claudette Johnson
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
