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Selling desirability
It is truthful to sell art as a luxury accessory
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Why did India ban this film?
“Satluj” is an important film and its suppression is unjust
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case