Adrian Tinniswood
Adrian Tinniswood is the author of Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Country House.
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
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
How gender identity hurt women in Argentina
Argentinian women need refuges — but only for women
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built