Philanthropy
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
The facts and the fury
Feeling strongly about an issue is a dangerous justification for mob action
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
Islamism, not social media, killed David Amess
Why won’t MPs and ministers speak frankly about the motives for his murder?
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Inadequately in office
Are there any Tories in the Tory party?
The art of the hype
Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
The religion of self-worship
Rowan Williams calls it a “sacred journey” — but trans ideology is a new faith altogether
Independence: a two-way street
Both judges and politicians must respect long-standing constitutional conventions
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over
Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all