Art Theft
Behind the scenes at the museums
The exhibits missing from the globe’s galleries and museums
The case of the legless duchess
A tale that proves the media and the public still thrill to an art theft
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
