Dutch Golden Age
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (and old) Man
The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
