Museums
Shrunken heads, shrinking horizons
Alexander Larman talks to the controversial director of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum
A miserable specimen
The Natural History Museum seems to have lost faith in the ability of children to understand new concepts and facts
Past imperfectionists
The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
