Spanish Culture
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms