On Art
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
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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 fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter