It’s not the Tate’s job to heal you
There must be limits to the idea of art as restorative
Art must be rescued from identity
We should celebrate artists for what they do, not who they are
A double dose of artistic idiosyncrasy
A review of “Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun” at Tate Britain
The rise and rise of corporate girlies
Aestheticising corporate life underpins the no-nonsense feminism of many modern businesswomen
The art of brotherly rivalry
Two artists shaped by differing attitudes to modernity
Jargon in excelsis
On “cisheteropatriarchy” and the ugliness and obscurity of cultural discourse
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods