Giovanni Gasparro
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
