James Whistler
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.