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I want to defend two very different 20th Century British artists from the 21st Century's Critical Theory and Colonial Theory , not least as Theory exerts its baleful influence in the art gallery world. This is part of my wider ambition to free modern culture - I mean the minds of the under-50s - from the worst of Theory and Postmodernism. Read more...

The BBC is likely to become very small, or even disappear, if not paying the TV Licence fee becomes a civil offence (is decriminalised, in the jargon). What an extraordinary turn-up for those of us who thought the BBC an absurdity but also thought that its dismemberment would probably have to wait a generation. That is roughly where I was when I wrote "Scrap the BBC!" in 2006. Here is how things might turn out.... Read more...

This is the obituary of Jack Zwirn, one of London's most extraordinary furriers. Written by RDN, the Independent ran it soon after Jack's death in 2004. Read more...