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
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
No common or garden sculptor
Canova’s influence on cultural heritage should not be overlooked
The case of the legless duchess
A tale that proves the media and the public still thrill to an art theft
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas