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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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
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.
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing