Art Reviews
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Eight women well worth meeting
“Parallel Lives” is an unsung gem of an exhibition
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC