Defend Liverpool Street Station!
Its charming character is under threat
A School of Place?
Wrong answers to good questions on urban design
A forever home
Architecture would be vastly more interesting if clients were happy to pay for character instead of accepting bland uniformity
What next for the Sainsbury Wing?
Selldorf Architects’ revised plans for the National Gallery are elegant and sympathetic
Fit for a king
The restoration of Charles III
Stirling work
The Stirling Prize should go to a build outside of London
Old and new
Regenerating existing neighbourhoods vs. attracting international attention: the two most prominent current approaches to urban planning
Small wonder
Nithurst Farm, in West Sussex, plays games with classical architecture
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world