Kenneth Clark
The fading clout of the scholarly connoisseur
Does quality matter today when considering art?
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble