Art History
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 elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
History is a battleground
How the world struggles to protect its heritage
Aryan idol
On the surprising legacy of an iconic eleventh century sculpture.
What survives of love
A splendid exhibition explores the history of romance
Victims of restitution
This obsession is obscuring important history
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
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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 revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious