Gustave Courbet
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
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Saint Nicola
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)