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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”