Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya: the embodiment of old Spain
Janis Tomlinson’s new biography of Francisco Goya is a well-informed, comprehensive biography that would make an excellent gift for any art lover
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
