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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A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court