Watercolours
Thomas Girtin: a YBA of yesteryear
At the time of his death, he had done more than Turner to show the possibilities of watercolour
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Eric Ravilious: a talent too long ignored
Ravilious’s ethereal, understated paintings are quietly dazzling
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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
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence