Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Buildings are storytellers
Civic architecture should be more than functional
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism