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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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion