Painting
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
A colossus unjustly ignored
Britain has never warmed to Rubens, whose finest works can be seen in Antwerp
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
Painting Queen Elizabeth
The painted surface of monarchy is everything
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
