Portraits
Frans Hals’ sense of fun
A delightful display of portraiture at the National Gallery
What survives of love
A splendid exhibition explores the history of romance
The Boris cult lives on
What his new portrait says about him
Painting Queen Elizabeth
The painted surface of monarchy is everything
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
