Old Masters
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The joy of old English
Interest in language was once the domain of antiquarians and clergymen