Royal Academy
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
High art
Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show
The dissident rebels of the art world
We must resist cancel culture and defend freedom of artistic expression
How not to lose your marbles
Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
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 EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?