Yves Klein
Out of the blue
Despite some political hang-ups, James Fox provides diverting stories on the history of colour
Visual mess
The pride flag has ended up symbolising nothing at all
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
