The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
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
Behind the scenes at the museums
The exhibits missing from the globe’s galleries and museums
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
