Basically wrong
The arguments for a basic income are as idealistic as they are simplistic. Its proponents are pursuing misguided ideals.
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Tory home truth
The decline in the proportion of owner-occupiers means a decline in the number of Conservative voters
Take Tucker’s tip
Disasters happen when the last man who can remember what happened last time has retired. Now is the time for new thinking
All go for lingo
There's an entrenched myth that learning a second language as a grown-up is a Herculean — or even Sisyphean — task. It isn’t
Is South Africa about to fall apart?
"It feels as if the country is beginning to unravel, that it is slipping towards ungovernability. Perhaps it can still be pulled back together but nothing is certain"
How Monet created motion pictures
The great Impressionist’s series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral prefigures the movies: his eye was the camera, his canvas the screen
Mary Cassatt: the feminine feminist
The magnificent exhibition of Mary Cassatt’s work currently on show in Paris demonstrates her clearly feminine sensibility and staggering skill
A currency to make bankers cry
Bitcoin is a fascinating hybrid: part cult, part asset, part business enterprise, part currency, part fad—and it appeals to the best and worst of human nature
The priesthood of the priggish
Does contemporary Western civilisation face any threat more pressing than that which emanates from within our own societies?
Hardy scholars and travellers
Western scholarship on Islam has long been under a cloud
The gentleman and the player
For many, Swanton and Arlott embodied the soul of cricket themselves
Tricks of Memory
Far more than just a jolly trip down memory lane, with a backdrop of dreaming spires, this is a moving and mature work