Gustave Courbet
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at