Johannes Vermeer
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (and old) Man
The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
