museum director
Sir Roy Strong
The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past
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The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
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The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
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When imitation is more then just flattery
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Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
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How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
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The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate