Dorian Gerhold
Dorian Gerhold is an historian and former House of Commons Clerk
The Victoria Tower Gardens plot
The Government’s building plans set a dangerous precedent for London parks
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy