Rachel Whiteread
The key to the collapse of our cultural self-confidence
Why have our great cultural institutions been among the first to fall?
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
