Florentina Holzinger
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
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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
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Dozing in the orchard
Chekhov at the RSC is a lot sleepier than it should be