Culture
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
The joys of the jumbo breakfast roll
Forget health for a moment and embrace grease and flavour
The establishment does not know what multiculturalism means
It requires tremendous knowledge and compromise — not just an understanding of different cuisines
The hidden depths of Saudi soft power
The Saudis are taking culture more seriously than one might think
Why ARC mattered
It offered the chance for serious reflection in rewarding company
Which way, art world man?
The British art world needs to cringe less and dream more
Eccentric, vital, fast?
Millennials and Zoomers are struggling to establish their artistic identities
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead