Culture
Ignoring race won’t help anything
The dangers of pathological altruism
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
The Piedmontese job
Enjoying the silky and lean Italian Fassona beef in Turin and Kensington
Muzzled in Moscow
Drawing on the author’s experiences, the book’s effect is akin to having a long pub chat with a knowledgeable journo
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
After the goldrush
Hannah Betts finds a way to live with her pet hate — denim jeans
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing