September 03, 2026- Page 17

"The government seems to have set itself on a course to discriminate against one minority group: cohabiting blood relatives"

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

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

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

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

'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'

William Simmonds was a modest but extraordinary artist, whose reputation rested on his marionettes and puppets

Why does sacred music remain popular at a time when the Church, its historical home, does not?