Emma Sergeant: Studies in untruth
Revealing how portraiture scares subjects who would prefer to be photo-shopped
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A reckoning for justice
Thomas Grant's "Court Number One" reveals the changing values of the society which the criminal justice system ultimately exists to enforce
Charlie Chaplin à la Française
Louis de Funès may be France’s most beloved actor. The choice tells us a lot about those who love him
Emulation and evisceration
Noel Malcolm tells the story of western intellectual fascination with the Ottoman empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453
An island that has forgotten the art of the backroom deal
‘Since the referendum, the attitude of the Irish government to the result—contemptuous, disbelieving, disrespectful—has grated. Leo Varadkar, a conformist individual, was in office at just the time when a fixer was what
Cast off the shackles of Empire victimhood
Blaming modern woes on past empires stokes infantilisation—condescension is colonialism’s last legacy. I’m proud of my CBE
Criminal justice chaos
'The problems that plague the criminal justice system are not rooted in an imagined “Leftist” criminal justice culture; they spring directly from the near-obliteration of the justice system by budget cuts of