Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Call for the King
Why the Restoration and Renewal Programme is mad, bad, dangerous for Parliament and must be stopped
Should new buildings make Cambridge better or worse?
Our alternative is much more popular than Christ’s College’s new proposed library
HMP Westminster
The fence outside the House of Lords is like a prison
Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
A sense of palace
It’s apparently beyond us to fix one of the world’s greatest buildings
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Why don’t we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?
The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture
Where the heart is
The government needs to face down its enemies on planning reform
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?