Art History
How I became an art collector
An unlikely passion
The Museum’s lost craft
These great exhibitions don’t just show art — they teach us to see it
Thomas Girtin: a YBA of yesteryear
At the time of his death, he had done more than Turner to show the possibilities of watercolour
Men of the cloth
Resurrecting the lost art of the painter-stainers
Life stories, writ large
Remarks on the history of modern tattoos
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
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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 banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling