On Art
A new madonna
On AI and authenticity
Growth, grift and speculation
What can art tell us about economics?
Polish lessons for Ukrainian reconstruction
What can the Ukrainians learn from post-war Warsaw?
Aryan idol
On the surprising legacy of an iconic eleventh century sculpture.
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
The Sagan standard
Liverpool’s Biennial rhetoric forgets about art
A fresh face for an old friend
The National Portrait Galley’s renovation doesn’t disappoint, bringing light and space to tell the story of the nation
What survives of love
A splendid exhibition explores the history of romance
Declining figures
British museums and galleries have yet to recover from Covid.
The dark side of Constable
His paintings have greater depth than fashion has supposed
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
