The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
Actors do love gongs
Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
