Painters
The darkness of enlightenment
A new exhibition of the work of Joseph Wright of Derby has much to tell us about science and the soul
A double dose of artistic idiosyncrasy
A review of “Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun” at Tate Britain
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?