Lockdown
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
Passport to Pestilence
Why can’t the government highlight changes to their guidance documents?
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
This is what we amputated a limb for
A long-term historical perspective on Covid-19
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
Romeo’s 2020 Lockdown Awards
How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?