Rachel Ruysch
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration