Still painting after all these years
While others have postured, Paul Resika has kept on painting
Paywall
Monday
Dickie and me
As older brothers separated by half a generation go, he has been a good one
Sunday
The perception of doors
Take hope, ye who enter here
Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist
Kshama Sawant’s attitude to Amazon has come to reach the level of a personal hatred rarely seen outside marriage
Modern English
The Blind Light by Stuart Evers reviewed
Saturday
Salamis tactics
Piraeus was the point of entry for the notorious plague that afflicted Athens in 480 BC
Friday
The next so-called civil war
‘To-day the doctor says I must die — all is over with me — ah, so young to die’
The Democratic art of magical thinking
It is not surprising that Democrats prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality
Wednesday
The hostages’ president
For all his faults, Trump cares about captive Americans
Tuesday
My debt to Royaumont
A Spanish flag flew on the palace to protect it from the occupying Germans
Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon
The public does not buy into the notion that there is ‘structural’ racism in the UK. There isn’t
Monday
New York has turned ugly
I haven’t seen so many overflowing garbage cans or homeless people since the 1970s
Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The country is undergoing a Great Unraveling
Sunday
The coming stitch-up
The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside the Shadow System That Shapes the Internet by James Ball reviewed
Saturday
The art of the presidency
What are the major artworks of the Trump years?
Friday
The new crusaders
Churches have become a target for the young and angry
Wednesday
The most locked-down couple in Eastern Europe
My wife had broken her heel and I was stricken with sciatica
Tuesday
Dearborn beloved
A pilgrimage to a people’s pantry
Monday
The danger this time
The promise to live and let live rather than treat every political battle as all-out war to the death is breaking down
Antifa made me Christian
If religion is opium, Marxism is crystal meth