Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Behind the scenes at the museums
The exhibits missing from the globe’s galleries and museums
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
A new madonna
On AI and authenticity
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
Irreversible damage
Trans “healthcare” has been utterly discredited, but activists are undeterred by the evidence
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
