V&A
Sir Roy Strong
The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past
The Museum’s lost craft
These great exhibitions don’t just show art — they teach us to see it
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
