The Critics
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
We don’t need another (super)hero
The shrinking world of the superhero franchise film.
Diamond geezers in Antwerp
From crime dramas to political thrillers, Adam LeBor reviews television from across the world
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.
Two essays in excellence
The BBC at its best on Shakespeare, and remembering Barry Humphries.
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
