The Boris cult lives on
What his new portrait says about him
Painting Queen Elizabeth
The painted surface of monarchy is everything
The woven woman
A new Louise Bourgeois exhibition revels in the difficult femininity of her work
Grow Britain by getting out of the way
Gove has swallowed the opposition’s patronising rationalisations of Brexit, along with their economically illiterate solutions
We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more
Time to admit it: the rules were always silly, and often cruel
Love, fame, power: the false allure of the celebrity politician
To truly achieve celebrity status and win a place in the nation’s affections you have to give up your political ambitions – just look at Ed Balls
Why Damien Hirst is the perfect artist for the pandemic
Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
