Pablo Picasso
A life in miniature
‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
The Golden Age of jockeys
Ryan Moore is most racing professionals’ idea of the best jockey in the world
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.