Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria

On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs

It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right

Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for

Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics

Auction house practices may be distorting the picture

Tired stereotypes enable philistine governance

The promise of John-Paul Stonard’s Creation is poisoned by a revisionist agenda

Poetry doesn’t need to be useful

How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique