Nicholas Boys Smith
Nicholas Boys Smith is the Director of Create Streets and the co-chair of the government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission.
Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
Sir Roger Scruton – The Last Commission
Sir Roger Scruton’s superhuman approach in the last months of his life
Reclaim the streets
Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return
Hail to the Chief (Part III)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR
Balm for straitened times
Christopher Pincher offers some bargain whites for our tricky times
The strategy behind the Covid Recovery Group
MPs fighting the lockdown are sharpening their swords for an almighty battle with No.10
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 3.0
In the third instalment of his diary, Dominic watches a man doing ballet on top of the British Ambassador’s Residence, and deals with his rude neighbour
The pardoner’s tale
Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring
The myth of overwhelming right-wing terrorism
Myth-makers are following fashion not evidence
How not to lose your marbles
Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Maggi Hambling’s Wollstonecraft is earnestly nonconformist
Hambling is like Wollstonecraft – a strong-minded, independent woman who has taken considerable public criticism over many years