Shakespeare
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
Waking up in Bardland
Fifty years of the RSC: Reflections in a time of corona
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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
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation