Statues
We should be afraid of Virginia Woolf
Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
Incel inside
The Russians assume we use Opera to project state power, I assure them that the government hate the arts
Will the Chinese “decolonise” Hong Kong?
Will a newly assertive Beijing seek to “decolonise” Hong Kong of the last visible signs of its colonial past?
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
Critic Columnist Suspended
Our fearless woke columnist has been mistaken for an evil right-wing satirist
No change please, we’re British
A new counter-petition campaign is a conservative response to iconoclasm
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye