Joseph Wright
England’s Caravaggio
Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
