Landscape
Thomas Girtin: a YBA of yesteryear
At the time of his death, he had done more than Turner to show the possibilities of watercolour
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Pond life with Mum
Patrick Galbraith says water can be a great healer
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
