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
Unstable foundations
The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque
Appreciating the small and recherché
There is still some unspoiled Surrey country to be enjoyed
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
History to be heeded
The evils of Hitler and Stalin should haunt us today
Against inhumane architecture
A new book deconstructs nihilistic pretensions of intellectuals
An island to admire
A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man
The North Riding, rediscovered
A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
