Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Buildings are storytellers
Civic architecture should be more than functional
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Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
