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
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates