Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
