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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow