Jean-Etienne Liotard
Bittersweet breakfast
“Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast” at the National Gallery
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
