Culture
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated