Folk
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion