Garrett Carr
Snapshots of a strong and silent type
Amid brands and trends, how do we identify the good stuff?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age