Designs for life
Four decades on, there is still much to admire in bestseller The Englishman’s Room
The transformation nobody wanted
The artistic should not be sidelined in favour of the commercial
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Eight women well worth meeting
“Parallel Lives” is an unsung gem of an exhibition
Bittersweet breakfast
“Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast” at the National Gallery
Can’t art ever just be happy?
Whilst the British art world wallowed in misery, John Craxton led a one man rebellion for the cause of cheer
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at