How not to lose your marbles
Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution