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Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
America’s licence to sell
Michael Prodger says deaccession has been given tacit approval abroad
Stinger stung
A professional gambler who sued for £7.7 million has unwittingly led the Supreme Court to redefine honesty
The stab-in-the-back myth
Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis
The jokes must go on
Christopher Bray reviews Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
Middle-class hero
John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing
Smuggling Plato to Prague
Edward Lucas pays tribute to his father J.R. Lucas, Oxford philosopher and Cold War champion of the Czechs
Me, Myself and I
The hip young authors who write about their greatest obsession – themselves
It ran in the family
Alexander Larman reviews Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone