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The Museum’s lost craft
These great exhibitions don’t just show art — they teach us to see it
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette