Museums
Where should the Elgin Marbles be displayed?
The British Museum has the ability to tell their story
Painters, legacies and lawyers
Money turns art, and the control of art, febrile
An architect for the British Museum
Brought up in war-torn Beirut, Lina Ghotmeh later designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Museums are a-changing
Decolonisation narratives are obscuring the true purposes of museums
The hidden depths of Saudi soft power
The Saudis are taking culture more seriously than one might think
The Kunstkammer
A gallery that contains the curiosities of many peoples
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union