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?
Who backed the backstop?
No one wants to own Boris’s Northern Ireland Protocol
Potty-mouthed politicians
Having the support of constituents is now secondary to Twitter popularity
The literal gaze of James Tissot
An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris
Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Building a New Jerusalem in Idaho
R. J. Rushdoony’s followers have made more plausible than ever before his vision of the American future
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
Short-changed by society
Small people like me face life-long discrimination – and now size has been “medicalised” for profit by drugs companies
Rats desert a thriving ship
The space for criticism to exist grows smaller and the archways that sustained its presence crumble away, laments Sarah Ditum
Finding the dividing line
Starmer seeks to trap Johnson on detail. But the future of the furlough scheme is really where the debate should head
Public exams are the only fair way to test pupils
Cancelling exams would only widen educational inequality