City of pricks
London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets
Gaslighting London
Westminster City’s plan to replace London’s gaslit routes
The modernist who wanted to be Führer
Charles Saumarez Smith says we should acknowledge the Nazi past of architect Philip Johnson, not erase him
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Out with the Old Masters?
Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
Opening up the British Museum
Honesty about how exhibits were acquired is a necessary first step in addressing our imperial past
Battle of the bells and the boutique hotel
Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell
Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
Reshuffle Live
Liz Truss replaces Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary
Vincent’s tragic legend restored
A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all
The forgotten Mr Fox
Richard Negus says the cruel sentimentality of the Hunting Act scars the countryside to this day, but the biggest loser is the animal it purported to protect
Terror and its apologists
The liberal left’s excuses mask the real culprit behind terror attacks
Murders for August
What masterpieces hide on tired and musty shelves?
The forbidden S-word
Countries worldwide have witnessed a systemic erasure of sex from public policy just when the data will be needed most
Paderewski & Stojowski: Violin Sonatas (CPO)
I would happily subscribe to an emergent series of forgotten Polish treasures if the quality remained this high
The quiet cancellations
In the fearful climate of cancel culture, women and girls lose out — again
Failed state
How history makes rioters of the French