Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
“A metal barbie on the crest of an £143,000 turd”
Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy