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
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
