Siberia
Dreaming of la dolce vita in the deep freeze
A cultural renaissance is underway in a region once synonymous with Stalin’s brutal gulags
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
