Romanticism
The art of brotherly rivalry
Two artists shaped by differing attitudes to modernity
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The Romantic Resurrection
The death of art, AI and what comes next
The new treason of the intellectuals
Julien Benda is as relevant today as he was in 1927
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency