Loss
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted