In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Carr’s sound, satisfying, and solid creations
A new book on an inventive, unjustly underrated, provincial architect is handsome but flawed
In praise of people’s parks
A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
Restoring the numinous
The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills
The elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
