James Panero
James Panero is the executive editor of the New Criterion
Studio: The English baroque architecture of New York
Climbing around, looking up, and zooming in: the delights of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition
Selected for greatness
Some men are born to greatness, others are parachuted into Tory safe seats
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
What the Conservatives can learn from Germany
The Tories should have a clean break with their past and rebuild