Willem van de Velde
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished