Klimt
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
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The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Sir David Attenborough at sea
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The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
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