Pyramids for piggies and Gothic privies
Mixed in with the whimsical, the eccentric and the downright weird, there are masterpieces
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
