Cezanne 25 at Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence was Cezanne’s refuge — or as close to one as this troubled, insecure artist could manage
Cézanne the father
A rich exhibition is dominated by the great French impressionist
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Thoughtful delicacy and austere introspection
An exhibition of the art of Gwen John secures her legacy
What survives of love
A splendid exhibition explores the history of romance
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
Insanity and death
Munch at the Musée D’Orsay
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism