Elgin marbles
Is the tide turning on restitution?
When passions are aroused, all of us are liable to overstate our case. Dan Hicks, a curator at Oxford’s extraordinary…
Relief fund
Will The Parthenon Project seize the Elgin Marbles?
Survivors
Martin Gayford visits two new surveys of Greek and Roman sculpture at the British Museum and Palazzo Strozzi. Reimagining what’s lost is as much of an inspiration as what remains
Diary
Do fish have loins? Last Tuesday, in a pretentious restaurant, I ordered a ‘loin of sea trout’. It looked just…
Turkey goes cold
Turkey has long been a bridge between the West and the Middle East. Its record on free speech may be…
Letters
Breaking the unions Sir: By the time this letter appears we shall know whether the land of my birth has…











