Fourth Plinth
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
How gender identity hurt women in Argentina
Argentinian women need refuges — but only for women
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Mutilation theology
Asserting mastery over their future selves is a feature of mastectomy, not a bug
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
