Museums
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?
A Vilnius descent
Progress only goes so far
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
