October 2018

'Seventy years after independence, bashing Winston Churchill has become a sure-fire way of attracting a mass following on Indian social media'

'The BBC’s new policy on “equality and diversity” reads as though it is straight out of the W1A comedy series'

'Jusepe de Ribera went beyond palpability — the way the paint becomes flesh — to the visceral. He sought to engage all our senses at once'

'There once was a Tudor woman with flaming red hair. Her name was Elizabeth, but she wasn’t the queen. Her reputation preceded her — Bess of Hardwick'

This year's Passion for Freedom exhibition asks: “What is freedom? How do you preserve it? How do you celebrate it?"

Georg Simmel was prescient: he realised that the freedom to pose as who we like helps in high-pressure mass societies Georg Simmel: Selfie aware Georg Simmel would have understood selfies. The German