Photography
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
An island to admire
A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man
Painting Queen Elizabeth
The painted surface of monarchy is everything
Mike Lear: Lubricious lensman
If Mike is in any way conspicuous, it is by virtue of his sheer inconspicuousness
Studio: Dubrovnik
Anthony Daniels visits the War Photo Limited gallery in Dubrovnik
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Francis Bacon’s love affair with France
Limited to only 206 copies, ‘Francis Bacon: Francophile’ is an attractive book sure to be snapped up by Baconophiles
Scars: stories of human resilience
Scars affect how we are seen and are often imbued with negative connotations – but instead of seeing a scar, can we see a story?
Lockdowns don’t work
Laura Dodsworth follows and photographs the guerrilla anti-lockdown campaign projected across London landmarks
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Will Reform conform?
Reform will become the Tories before replacing them
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
