Art
The Romantic Resurrection
The death of art, AI and what comes next
Unflinching attention
On art, Grenfell and catharsis
Battling the body
The David fiasco would baffle Italians
Problem picture
The artist Balthus simply refuses to be cancelled
The poor relation of the art world
All over Europe traditional figurative art, particularly from the nineteenth century, is being shunted to the corners of museums — and eventually removed from view
The madding crowd
Drunks, dames and Dahl
So close, so far
Pilvi Takala’s breaching experiments
Selling the jewels
Auntie has gone mad and is auctioning off the family silver
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
Performance politics (with Lola Salem)
On the multi-pronged campaign against reality
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing