New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Burrell 2.0
The Burrell Collection’s second chance to capture the hearts of Glasgow
On a pedestal?
Give up joyless meat-hating for Lent
Urban skirmish
The new Chelsea Barracks is striking for its forgetfulness
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
House of fun
The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament
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
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
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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.
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Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
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The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Price caps and political pygmies
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