Counterpoints- Page 4

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

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?

The British media has labelled anti-Semitism in the Labour Party a “scandal”. This seriously understates the problem

"Every time I read of a new algorithm for producing a hit pop song, or software for writing a Man Booker-worthy novel, I know I’m in for a disappointment"

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

What are the duties of the modern author? To tweet hourly, to Instagram daily, to podcast weekly, to pen a monthly TinyLetter

In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up

One hundred years ago, Edwardian England unwittingly hosted both the Romanovs and their future killers

The National Gallery exhibition shows that Thomas Cole, like Turner and John Martin, was a visionary and a pictorial dramatist

"Before the screening, I made bold to ask the audience not to refrain from laughter. They were nice enough to obey my incitement"