Artist
Painters, legacies and lawyers
Money turns art, and the control of art, febrile
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
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?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
