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?
What did Roger Scruton and Christopher Hitchens have in common?
Douglas Murray on the personal debt he owes to the two men he considers his literary mentors
The illegitimacy of expertise
Why did the West stop following its own Lockdown rules?
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
Should we sacrifice principle to expediency?
The ‘temporary’ threat to trial by jury
Stay alert – because we fear change
The narrative of Tory callousness is re-emerging
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism