Gallery Review
The second life of Pauline Boty
Critics should not drown this much-needed revival in emotive clichés
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
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
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods