Giovanni Bellini’s portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan in the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery is a masterpiece of poise and reflection. It is one of those portraits so precisely rendered that you half expect […]
Conventional wisdom says Christmas has become commercialised and no one knows the real meaning of Christmas anymore. Shops start selling Christmas goods in September, and by December no one can bear another rendition of Merry […]
The new governor of the Bank of England will receive £250,000 per annum for housing expenses We have lived through some exploitative times, with those at the top of the power pyramid helping themselves and […]
Why does the USA insist on allowing its citizens to be armed? To genteel Europeans the very idea seems absurd. Here, even to have an interest in guns is suspect. To restrict access to guns […]
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