Fine Art
Rhyme or reason
Poetry doesn’t need to be useful
The myriad Mona Lisas
How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning