Somerset House
The Courtauld: a collection unmasked
The gallery has long been famous for its impressionist collection, but the reopening sheds light on other works of art
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
