The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Why the election was good for Unionism
A diversity of voices will help rather than hinder the cause
Here comes trouble
Farage is going to cause huge headaches for the Tories, and may be here to stay
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
