Giovanni Boldoni
Why banks collect art
What started as one banker’s obsession is now an €850 million asset — and a powerful branding tool
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?