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”
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
