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A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence