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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses