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
The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
