Art
Studio: Election Artists
Michael Prodger takes a look at the artists who paint politics
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
