Diamonds
Let them eat filberts
The new owner of Antoinette’s jewellery will not just get exquisite gems but a provenance that is equally perfect and poignant
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry