William Hogarth
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
Race to the end
The Tate’s latest offering reveals more about its curators than its art
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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
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Best intentions …
A woo-woo approach to summer fashion
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism