Gallery Review
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
Tove Jansson’s humane vision
A major Paris exhibition highlights timeless themes of the Finnish artist’s ouvre
Forever stuck in the nineties
Sarah Lucas and the sexual revolution that wasn’t
Frans Hals’ sense of fun
A delightful display of portraiture at the National Gallery
Growth, grift and speculation
What can art tell us about economics?
Polish lessons for Ukrainian reconstruction
What can the Ukrainians learn from post-war Warsaw?
The grievance industry
Ostentatious victimhood can be a comfortable gig
The Sagan standard
Liverpool’s Biennial rhetoric forgets about art
Down with skool
When will we stop herding unwilling children into an academic schooling many of them don’t want or need?
What survives of love
A splendid exhibition explores the history of romance
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
