Pablo Picasso
Cézanne the father
A rich exhibition is dominated by the great French impressionist
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting