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
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
The vicious circle of higher education funding
Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part