Gallery Review
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
The dark side of Constable
His paintings have greater depth than fashion has supposed
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
So close, so far
Pilvi Takala’s breaching experiments
Complexity on canvas
Women abstract artists step out of the shadows
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
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders