Can anyone balance America’s books?

On holiday with Goya

Art

Spending a few days with the artist famous for his brooding ‘black paintings’ was not something I was sure I’d enjoy

Lex Duff

The Boy and the Suit of Lights highlights the centrality of bullfighting to the culture of certain parts of Spain

Mark Nayler

I broke the cardinal rule of backpacking

Robin Ashenden

The stakes couldn’t be higher

Jim Lawley

Europe

Like the four previous general elections since 2015, this one was inconclusive — only even more so

Jim Lawley

Film
June 26, 2023
Is Amber Heard staging a subtle comeback?
Exiling yourself to a new country for privacy can be an effective PR strategy
Cockburn
Science & Tech
May 29, 2022
Monkeypox, Covid and the trouble with our species
There is already a familiar culture war over the origins of this apparently species-leaping virus
Douglas Murray
Europe
October 13, 2020
Spain’s bureaucracy may not survive COVID
Some in Madrid blame the central government, some blame the regional government, and some blame both
Jim Lawley
Place
November 26, 2019
Franco’s ghost
The generalísimo kept Saint Teresa of Avila’s mummified hand by his bedside
Ian Thomson