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Feminist art historians get Artemisia Gentileschi wrong
Contemporary feminist art theory: little help in understanding a seventeenth century artist
Poignant power of cheap food
Would I read it if the subject wasn’t famous? One has to say yes, with chips and curry sauce
Into the festive spirit
Christopher Pincher enjoys a 2009 Margaux in a dining room steeped in historical scandal
Mapping the past
The new edition of Tom Harper’s ‘Atlas: A World of Maps’ is an instructive as well as attractive volume
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
The danger of rewriting history
There is a concerted attempt to reconstruct what children are taught about their history
A foodie in his element
The author is evenhanded and accurate about the nouvelle cuisine movement, says Paul Levy
How to beat the killjoys
A pared-back Christmas means we can at last bin the big bird, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
What follows the abolition of fixed-term parliaments?
Will the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?
The First Friend
How the taxpayer funds Nimco Ali
Most Read
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
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)