The animal vote
Animal welfare is a political open goal — and Brexit is a one-off chance to establish better standards in the UK
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Numbers game (contd.)
The Monty Hall problem requires clear, unbiased thinking as new information comes in
My private Paris
Get a gallery to yourself in Paris: pick an unfashionable country or a passed-over period
A new Europe calls
There is a rare breed who go to Germany in February: we love to overheat in flagstoned, candle-lit Weinstuben, and freeze in baroque churches and sudden blizzards
The little town that just won’t lie down
Tiny Fordwich in Kent, still thriving after 1,400 years, faces a new invasion: London foodies
How the truth can set you free
Jordan Peterson is erudite and well read but 12 Rules for Life has much of the tenor of a typical self-help book
The referendum Remainers won
The similarities between the 1975 and 2016 EU referendums are more striking than the differences
In my end is my beginning
An 'alternative' mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death
Publish and be damned
Blake Morrison’s new novel on a literary executor’s tussle over a poet’s posthumous publication John Murray: Byron’s publisher and literary executor burned Byron’s memoirs (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,
Emil Nolde: The primacy of colour
Emil Nolde is a curious and paradoxical artist: a supporter of the Nazis, who in turn proscribed his pictures as “degenerate art”
The man who set himself in stone
Murillo has gone out of fashion but an exhibition of his portraits may help to restore his reputation