Imperial War Museum
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt