Paintings
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
