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”
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it