Issue: October 2020

Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger

Patrick Galbraith says hunting would benefit youngsters

Opera was the tinder of Renaissance Venice, says Robert Thicknesse

Reject the joyless nursery arithmetic of cookbooks, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto

Claudia Savage-Gore baulks at the idea of decamping to the shires

Thomas Woodham-Smith on the sexed-up fantasies of the antique dealer

If someone identifies something you’ve said as problematic, they mean you are the problem

Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon

We won’t accept policemen are corrupt because the thought of anarchy is intolerable

‘This Sporting Life’ should be read by our managerial ruling class who dismiss what they do not understand as “populist” or “right-wing”