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?
Broken news
Binding stations to strict impartiality regulations deprives people of watching partisan news programmes even if they want to
Making sense of the SNP
Anglo-Scottish relations from a historical perspective
Otherworldly talents
Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity
Sex is not a human right
The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction
Criminalising Christians
Activists demand the most religiously repressive law the UK has seen in centuries
Better late than never
The BBC finally drop Stonewall
Losing face
How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?
The Critic Books Podcast: The Gardener
On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener
How do we perceive the world?
This is the question Jordan Peterson tried to answer in his celebrated return to Cambridge
On the side of Engels
Suffocated by a neurotic with-us-or-against-us mindset, the huddled masses of today’s Left brook no dissent
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell