Import
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside