Art History
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Revolutionary faith
Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution
Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
It’s no Globe
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
Good, mid-range claret is now very affordable
At these prices can you afford not to be drinking Bordeaux?
The painter with the X factor
Be careful what you wish for
Painters, legacies and lawyers
Money turns art, and the control of art, febrile
Was this Chinese painter mad?
His style and eccentric life were to prove highly influential to younger artists
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
Standing side by side with angels
Like Lucifer, Pico thought himself too brilliant to stand below angels in God’s Hierarchy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works