Contemporary Arts
The market needs a rethink
What do the next generation of buyers actually want?
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
New work, sounding old
A disappointing new collection
A college in tune with the times
How music colleges need to adjust to the twenty-first century
How artivism captured the ICA
If the Institute of Contemporary Arts wants to be in the vanguard of “social justice” activism should it retain its charitable status?
Cancel the Turner
It looks like it was made by artists who don’t like art and chosen by judges who don’t either
Painting by numbers
Alexander Adams counts the cost of female artistic success
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries