Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist who just died at 91, was never cool. If a British comparison springs to mind, it’s the work of Beryl Cook…
About 2,000 artefacts are believed to have gone missing from the British Museum in London, making it the latest national institution to suffer a…
How long ago the final of the Women’s World Cup already seems. This may have something to do with the almighty rumpus that has followed Spain’s 1-0…
The news coming out of Ecuador lately has been distressing. Just days before presidential elections took place earlier this month, a former member of…
Just over a year ago, in the final of the Women’s Euros, football fans witnessed an ‘instantly iconic’ moment. It came after Chloe Kelly scored the…
Over the years, I’ve come to think of the big auction houses in London as opulent art galleries. Perhaps that’s inevitable if you can’t hope to…
Nigel Farage is in the news again. Like him or loathe him — the controversial figure who has dominated British politics for years, seeing off a…
A summertime fad grips the nation. People are frantically rummaging in their cupboards to find pink outfits to wear. Celebrities like Gigi Hadid,…
We have just witnessed a very rare event in British politics: three simultaneous by-elections in England. Naturally, there is a temptation to see…
There are vanishingly few people on the planet today who have the heart to deny that the climate is changing. As I write, large areas of the world…