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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Restoration romps
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Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous