Sir Kenneth Clark
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
At a pinch
on snuff and its accoutrements
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Romance rethink
An optimistic rejoinder to common dating advice
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?