Vandalism
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
Death comes for the church building
The Church of England abandons historic buildings – can they have an afterlife?
An extreme form of criticism
Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger
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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
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes