On Art
Saving a saint
Help is needed to secure a Franciscan miracle
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
Insanity and death
Munch at the Musée D’Orsay
No common or garden sculptor
Canova’s influence on cultural heritage should not be overlooked
The case of the legless duchess
A tale that proves the media and the public still thrill to an art theft
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
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Three pheasants, one Land Rover
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It’s what you Makerfield of it
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From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Soft-Play Britain
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Why a wealth tax would fail
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