Frank Auerbach
The life-long genius of Sickert
There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings
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We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)