Pitt Rivers
The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures