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Ring up the new
The most expensive post-war work sold last year fetched just over $91 million. The most expensive Old Master sold for $21.5 million
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
A belly full of agitpropera
Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Heaven in a tin
Improvise in the kitchen, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Up with expertise, down with experts
Politicians should be informed by experts but not led by them
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Anti-Christian bias is rife in Employment Tribunals
If you’re Christian, you can no longer count on a fair hearing in workplace disputes
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
