John Nash
John Nash is overrated
Against neat-freak planning
The life and loves of John Nash
Andy Friend provides a readable account of Nash’s life, but omits important detail about how the artist made others feel
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly