Marble Arch
Marble Ah.
The new Marble Arch reminds me of that Cristiano Ronaldo statue
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The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Supernatural delight
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Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation