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A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all

Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention

Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories

The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken

The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction

Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent

The University College Union is hounding members out of their jobs for holding gender-critical views

Time for self-styled “design guru” Stephen Bayley to move on from his erstwhile mentor, monstrous Sir Tel

These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious

I’m proud that Britain is known as “TERF Island”