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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy