Auction
The art of the hype
Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method
The lockdown boom in an empty room
Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?
The mystery of the folded dragon
Michael Prodger recounts the tale of Hergé’s drawing for the cover of the Tintin instalment: The Blue Lotus
The great Rugby School library sale
As Rugby School prepares to auction off some of its most prized literary possessions, one must wonder what Dr Arnold would have to say
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
