Rationalists
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
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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
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project