A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Civilisation versus barbarism in Kensington and Chelsea
A new book reminds us of the irreplaceable value of our architectural heritage
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
