Art
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
Can bad people be good artists?
The moral standards of creative giants
The late Leonardo
The Louvre’s anniversary exhibition has been a fraught exercise from first to last
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
Will Reform conform?
Reform will become the Tories before replacing them
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Say it ain’t so, Joe
How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?
Only Joe Biden can save America
He needs to keep reminding the American public that unless they vote for him they are evil and racist
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Troublesome women
Rebellious heroines and unscrupulous heroes
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
