Roger Bowdler
Roger Bowdler is an historian of tombs and buildings
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine