Museums
Painters, legacies and lawyers
Money turns art, and the control of art, febrile
An architect for the British Museum
Brought up in war-torn Beirut, Lina Ghotmeh later designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Museums are a-changing
Decolonisation narratives are obscuring the true purposes of museums
The hidden depths of Saudi soft power
The Saudis are taking culture more seriously than one might think
The Kunstkammer
A gallery that contains the curiosities of many peoples
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,