James Whistler
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon