Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Doing Burlington dirty
The Government’s is hounding distinguished societies from their prestigious premises
The lockdown boom in an empty room
Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
London revisited
Can London adapt to different work practices and living priorities after Covid-19 recedes?
Building Scrutopia
Sir Roger Scruton and the architectural establishment
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
