Studio
Studio: The history of Britain in maps
Maps are aids and images, means and messages
A colossus unjustly ignored
Britain has never warmed to Rubens, whose finest works can be seen in Antwerp
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet
Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places
Studio: Drawing US Presidents
John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
