Eric Gill
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
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
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?