Middle-age
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)