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?
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
