Populists
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Superunintelligence
Have we witnessed the rise of ShappsGPT?
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
