creativity
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
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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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality