A Macabre New Vision of Spain
The influence of religious sculpture on the Golden Age painters suddenly becomes clear
Sculpture Merged With Landscape
Henry Moore: Back to a Land celebrates the artist’s devotion to nature’s shape and form
The First Steps of a Great Newspaperman
Sarah Johnson introduces an account by her late father of his earliest days in journalism
Is British Democracy Still For The People?
Our political system is being weakened by inaccurate voting registers, ‘shared’ sovereignty and unaccountable international organisations
Eye-witness to the Final Crowning Glory of the Raj
A century ago, my grandmother attended George V’s Coronation Durbar as Emperor of India, an extravaganza worthy of the Moghuls
Berlin: Empty Elections
‘This reunification generation of Germans is sick of coalition government but equally dissatisfied with the alternatives on offer’
Equally Incoherent
The Left is resurgent in the Labour Party, but its egalitarian agenda is utterly inconsistent
Ben Uri At 100
The centenary exhibition of "the art museum for everyone".
History is Now and England
The hushed-up glories of Huntingdonshire are worthy of praise
Britain Still Needs The BBC
Despite everything, the BBC is still one of our great cultural forces
What Survives of Him is Love
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
The Return Of War
In the era of Putin and Islamic State, we shall have to dust off Clausewitz and confront reality