Sculpture
Mystery of the missing bronze
A new excavation to find the third Riace statue is planned
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?
Nero: zero or hero?
Despite everything we thought we knew, Nero may just possibly be regarded as a half-decent emperor
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism