Royal Academy
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
High art
Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show
The dissident rebels of the art world
We must resist cancel culture and defend freedom of artistic expression
How not to lose your marbles
Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong
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Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
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Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
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London is broken
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A carnivore’s arcadia
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The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived