Frank Auerbach
The life-long genius of Sickert
There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop