Mike Wells
Mike Wells is a photographer whose portfolio includes comprehensive coverage of Nigeria in the 1970s. His “Hands” photo drew international attention to the Karamoja famine in Uganda and won the 1981 World Press Photo competition
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares