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This artreview.com/whos-afraid-of… by JJ Charlesworth is fantastic

Arts funding through Arts Council England is already politicised, already curbs 'liberty of thought' (since there's no diversity of opinion in what gets funded) and already stokes the culture wars, since it has become a bunker for 'progressive' opinion. The idea that ACE is a 'protector

Kneecap deserve our ridicule for being knob-heads, but government ministers shouldn’t be deciding who plays at Glastonbury

Yesterday, the Grangemouth Refinery ceased refining crude oil. We still need oil and all of its products, not least petrol and diesel. Its closure is an act of national self-harm, which will damage our economy and our security. spectator.co.uk/article/the-cl…

Kneecap’s expression of support for Islamofascists was obscene. But so are the attempts to ban them, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/fTo0U67

Why? Freedom of speech means the freedom to pay £375 to listen to hipster bellends rant about politics in a bougie softplay.

I spoke to the great Korean artist Do Ho Suh, ahead of his just-opened show at Tate Modern, for the The Telegraph ‘Space is just a vessel for containing our memories’ telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/do…

It's funny how this idiotic piece calls us Gen-Xers 'rather nondescript', given how much maniacal, obsessive energy Millenials and GenZs seem to pour into trying to cancel us. theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

I wrote about the fascinating Modern Art Oxford retrospective of the life and work of Barbara Stevini, for ArtReview_

Does everyone realise that the #Leadbeaterbill allows those with Downs Syndrome to "choose" #assistedsuicide? And that the gov will encourage this in the name of equality?

Let me get this straight. We conceded everything the EU asked for on: -energy -food -fishing -money In return they politely reminded countries that they could - if they felt like it - let middle class Brits move slightly faster through airports on their way to Tuscan villas?

Putting more money in Lidl's pocket, surely.

Sure, but how about maybe just start by building some houses?

Free speech is for Lucy Connolly, Kneecap, hate marchers, very Brexity things, woke identitarians, fash identitarians, street preachers, drill rappers, Islamists, ‘Islamophobes’. Don’t be a hypocrite. Don’t be a ‘but’-head. Oppose *all* censorship, or expect more of it.

Trigger warning for National Theatre's new production of, er, Hamlet.

My latest on arts funding, defunding, Arts Council England and Wigmore Hall, and why private philanthropy is where it's all headed. For ArtReview_

Yes

A verdict that would make the ayatollah proud

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Good news. Art criticism needs contrasting and opposing voices, Pierre d'Alancaisez is a great addition to The Critic