Lara Brown

What is the Tate Modern for?

11 May 2025 4:30 pm

Twenty-five years ago today, the Tate Modern first opened its doors to the public. The main attraction: a nine metre-high…

Ministers must now stand up for women’s rights

16 April 2025 11:15 pm

The highest court in the land was set the task of determining: what is a woman? Today it gave its…

Museums need a new approach to restitution

15 April 2025 12:14 am

Three years ago, the Horniman Museum agreed to return 72 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The museum’s chair hailed the decision…

Have we reached peak EDI?

13 March 2025 10:26 pm

As the old saying goes, ‘when American sneezes, England catches a cold’. This week, the two major city watchdogs announced…

Labour must learn from Kamala Harris’s transgender muddle

9 November 2024 4:29 am

Donald Trump’s remarkable election victory has been rightly attributed to the long shadow of inflation combined with mass illegal immigration…

There’s nothing ‘offensive’ about Prince Albert’s Memorial

25 July 2024 12:18 am

The Prince Albert Memorial is the latest target of activists seeking to denigrate our past. The Memorial has stood in…

Wes Streeting’s puberty blocker ban makes sense

16 July 2024 4:51 pm

Actions speak louder than words. In one of the first tests of his tenure, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting has…

Will Starmer have the courage to stand up for women’s rights?

26 June 2024 2:16 am

Gender ideology was perhaps the last topic which Labour wanted to be front and centre of the election campaign but…

Activist curators are spoiling Britain’s museums

29 October 2023 5:00 pm

History, we’re told, is written by the victors. But nowadays, it seems it’s museum curators who really have the final…

The ‘marking boycott’ is yet another betrayal for students

18 May 2023 2:27 am

Students have had a rough deal over the past years. They’ve had their degrees interrupted by Covid and teaching strikes,…