On Art
Art for art’s sake
A collector who bought for pleasure rather than investment
The burgeoning arts scene in Saudi Arabia
How to foster a creative art scene within the setting of state control
Was this Chinese painter mad?
His style and eccentric life were to prove highly influential to younger artists
Art for cash’s sake
How to buy and sell at a profit
Slain Jane
Vanderlyn’s incendiary painting of British perfidy and indigenous brutality
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
Yes, beauty matters. Now what?
How do we address our current artistic crisis and the wearying stalemate of the “culture wars”?
Thomas Girtin: a YBA of yesteryear
At the time of his death, he had done more than Turner to show the possibilities of watercolour
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
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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
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 forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat