Artist
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated