The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
