Painting
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
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Diversion, disruption and distinction
Being memorable and sticky guarantees a novel a long and healthy life
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Did QE cost taxpayers?
Claims that the Bank of England’s programme cost billions are a red herring
Here comes trouble
Farage is going to cause huge headaches for the Tories, and may be here to stay
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
