Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
