Old Masters
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
Bad manners
Did a Miami Art Gallery really sell a Rembrandt by accident?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust