Cezanne
A writer unsure who he wanted to be
Emile Zola: A Determined Life by Robert Lethbridge; Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby
Pissarro: paintings, prints, and papery pleasure
This exhibition shows the world of the impressionists beyond their most famous paintings
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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
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define