Art
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
