The referendum Remainers won
The similarities between the 1975 and 2016 EU referendums are more striking than the differences
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
In my end is my beginning
An 'alternative' mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death
Publish and be damned
Blake Morrison’s new novel on a literary executor’s tussle over a poet’s posthumous publication John Murray: Byron’s publisher and literary executor burned Byron’s memoirs (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,
Emil Nolde: The primacy of colour
Emil Nolde is a curious and paradoxical artist: a supporter of the Nazis, who in turn proscribed his pictures as “degenerate art”
The man who set himself in stone
Murillo has gone out of fashion but an exhibition of his portraits may help to restore his reputation
Rural bliss
Although nature is not built for man, the pleasures it affords are instinctive and infinite. The beauty of the natural world transcends that of any urban space
School sex ordeals
Sexual harassment is happening in schools and universities across the country. With all our concern about victims of the past, let's not overlook the present
A demon banished
Laura Freeman’s The Reading Cure is a miraculous memoir — both a compendium of learning lightly worn and a record of her recovery from anorexia
Better late . . .
What’s the best way to avoid embarrassment when turning up to a party prematurely? Tissot addressed the problem in his painting "Too Early"
Capitalist rebirth of Hoxha’s hellhole
Tirana, capital of Albania, has been transformed — a bustling, revitalised city, far from the repressive dictatorship of the past
The Brexit cringe — Mrs T would say ‘No!’
If Britain is to regain the freedom of a sovereign nation state, Theresa May must get up off her knees and if necessary leave without a deal
Will the genius of the common law survive?
The cornerstone of our legal system has withstood the encroachments of EU and statute law, but the jury is out on its long-term future