Battered and beguiling
Polish art should not be ashamed of being Polish
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The imagination of Ensor
The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
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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
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses