Sculpture
Alberto Giacometti’s visions of war
Sadly, the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti still speak to us today
Some observations on public commemoration
Memorials should be meaningful, not mawkish
George Ciancimino
More than a survivor of the “sixties”
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
No common or garden sculptor
Canova’s influence on cultural heritage should not be overlooked
The timelessness of Henry Moore
How a modernist bogeyman became an Old Master
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Robert Indiana: Love is all you need
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an incongruously perfect backdrop for this artist of twentieth century Americana
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library