Folk
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Walking the wild side of Merrie England
Revived folk customs are proud expressions of local identity and communal cohesion
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
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
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall