Iconoclasm
Nemesis comes to Charlottesville
As Americans gleefully melt down statues of Confederate leaders, they may soon discover that iconoclasm is no road to civic peace
The souping of Saint Vincent
The iconoclastic impulse must be curbed
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
Let’s not lose our heads over Rhodes
Can a man loyal to his Oxford college really be all bad?
Take Your Picton
Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue
No change please, we’re British
A new counter-petition campaign is a conservative response to iconoclasm
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
