Frieze
Signs for a revival in London’s art market
This year’s Frieze may mark a return to buying art for pleasure and quality
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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
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Sad Scottish schadenfreude
For too many nationalists, England losing is mistaken for Scotland winning
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation