Georges de La Tour: From Shadow to Light
Transporting you into a wonderful candlelit world where nothing can intrude on permanent tranquillity
Bacchus in Pompeii
The meaning of the beautiful frescoes in the House of Thiasus remains a mystery
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Cops, guns and judges
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on firearms officers means
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Studio: Piranesi
Alasdair Palmer visits an exhibition at the Fondazione Marco Besso, Rome
Risky business
When it comes to booking a holiday abroad, we need to protect our right to take risks and make our own decisions
An unrepentant serial killer
The Happy Traitor tells Blake’s story in a witty and sophisticated way, fully alert to its complexities and ironies
Blinded by science
Alasdair Palmer says there is little evidence to show that lockdowns are effective
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre