Mona Lisa
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
The myriad Mona Lisas
How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
