Museums
Victims of restitution
This obsession is obscuring important history
A race to the bottom
“Decolonisation” ideology distorts and condescends
Is restitution racist?
Returning cultural items can be vice clad as virtue
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa
The Parthenon is special, but not unique
If we must return the Elgin marbles, why not any other artefact?
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
The culture war is all around you
It is the philosophical water in which we swim
British museums are failing visitors
Keep the exhibitions open!
Bad medicine
Has America’s “racial reckoning” come for the Wellcome Collection?
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
