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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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain