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
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
