Art History
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
The imagination of Ensor
The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes
From the Trojan War to conflict in Ukraine
Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting
The second life of Pauline Boty
Critics should not drown this much-needed revival in emotive clichés
What’s in a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures’ name?
Should we refer to the Elgin Marbles or Parthenon Sculptures?
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
