Studio
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre
Georges de La Tour: From Shadow to Light
Transporting you into a wonderful candlelit world where nothing can intrude on permanent tranquillity
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
British sporting art
Two views of the same country
V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers
Imagine an Airbus A320 being thrown around the sky as if it was a Spitfire
The Venice Architecture Biennale
Amidst the katzenjammer are many fascinating, hopeful and plausible offerings
Bacchus in Pompeii
The meaning of the beautiful frescoes in the House of Thiasus remains a mystery
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT