Anatomy
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
