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?
High priestess of a new morality
At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees
December 2020: Letters to the Editor
In praise of lockdown
The religion of human rights
The reaction to the government’s Independent Human Rights Act Review suggests we are in distinct danger of succumbing to a destructively progressive cult
Letter from Washington: A hurried impeachment
Impeachment was a chance for Congress to reassert its primacy. Senators chose not to
What the media missed about the Care Quality Commission’s Tavistock report
It seems something very disturbing is going on behind those doors; something the Gender Identity Development Service is too ashamed to admit
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
What makes a Penguin Classic?
Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’
Cheryl Partington
Media Don
The history twisters
Nigel Jones warns that cinematic portrayals of historical events and figures could alter how we understand the past
George Shultz: A life guided by trust but marred by scandal
George Shultz, a long-term Secretary of State of the Reagan administration, has died at the age of 100