VAT
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
