Tate Britain
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
The hardest word
The Catholic Church is resisting huge pressure to apologise for its involvement in indigenous cruelty
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Trouble in vaccine valley
Von der Leyen’s Covid nationalism could do real damage to the EU’s vaccine hub
French Class
Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
French soul searching
The search engine that tells you if you are descended from slave owners
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first
Stop this fascist gaslighting
Without white progressives like me to supervise them, ethnic minorities are helpless and easily exploited
Professional denouncement for private opinions
We need to think twice before saying chambers can’t take on a barrister due to private opinions previously expressed, says Andrew Tettenborn