Gallery Review
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
A puzzling trip into Potter world
In search of complexity, Hilary Lloyd makes Dennis Potter’s vast oeuvre mysterious
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The imagination of Ensor
The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes
The decline of beauty
Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?
Thoughtful delicacy and austere introspection
An exhibition of the art of Gwen John secures her legacy
Women’s anger and women’s ambiguities
A new exhibition offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, perspectives on women in revolt
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working