Auctions
Ring up the new
The most expensive post-war work sold last year fetched just over $91 million. The most expensive Old Master sold for $21.5 million
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
