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Derek Hudson – Francis Bacon, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1977 (photo courtesy of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation)
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The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
