Yookay aesthetic
Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic
The best argument against multiculturalism is staring you in the face
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world