Gilbert and George
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton