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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something