Features
Save our Van Dyck
The Flemish artist’s final self-portrait was vital to British art. We’d be philistines to let it leave the country
Notes on … Museum shops
The plan to do last year’s Christmas shop at Peter Jones on 23 December was doomed from its sorry inception.…
Is addiction a disease?
Yes Trinny Woodall I’m Trinny, I’m an alcoholic and I’m an addict. When asked whether addiction is a disease, I…
An icon of our time
The Paul Flowers scandal says much about social and political priorities of modern Britain
Save the soundbite!
The question is not what rhetoric can do for politicians. It’s what politicians can do for rhetoric
Beyond belief
Women bishops, gay marriage, and the death of Tory Anglicanism
How we invented freedom
It’s time to rediscover the original Bill of Rights
Pants to the fatties
It’s becoming impossible to find knickers in my size
It all began in 1963
If you’re looking for the year when the old England died, this was it
The 2013 Michael Heath Award for cartooning
Nine cartoonists are shortlisted for the first ever Michael Heath Award for cartooning. The theme of the contest, sponsored by…
Notes on…London galleries
Everybody knows that the London art scene is thriving, and so of course the big international commercial galleries have set…
The real energy scandal
Politicians, not the Big Six, have jacked up the price of power. And they’re only just getting started
Victims’ justice
Our ancient right to a fair, impartial trial is under threat
The man who broke the silence
How Professor Paul Collier has bypassed the liberal taboo on discussing immigration
Notebook
All eyes on the Philippines this week, and rightly so. Godspeed to those American and British ships making their way…
Union man
Can George Galloway keep Scotland in Britain?
New York: Literary ghost tour
John Gimlette visits the flats and flophouses of great writers
Venice: A feast of great art
Jack Wakefield admires the ravishing legacy of a city’s golden age
Tangier: Hidden treasure
William Cook finds magic in the alleys of the medina
Paris: Parc life
John Laughland wanders the jardins and boulevards
Berlin: The best bar in the world
‘You were at the Fish, I hear,’ a Berlin friend told me. ‘I didn’t know you were an old hippie.’…
St. Petersburg: Off Nevsky Prospect
Thomas Eaton experiences a Russian immersion
Notes on… Motoring in Greece and Italy
‘Buy on the bullets’ is the cry of the most ruthless stockbrokers — invest just before a war, after the…
Ab Fab Britain
The drinkers and smokers of Britain have raised a generation of puritans. How did this happen?
Generation Fear
Family legend has it that when I arrived in Durham, a fresh-faced ingénue from deepest Somerset, I called home. ‘This…
