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
Aryan idol
On the surprising legacy of an iconic eleventh century sculpture.
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
Declining figures
British museums and galleries have yet to recover from Covid.
Saving a saint
Help is needed to secure a Franciscan miracle
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
