Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann in Munich
A harried artist between the classical and the modern
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws