Artillery Row
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
What does surrogacy say about us?
We are putting the interests of adults above those of children
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
The liberal establishment is to blame for public outrage
Ignoring and enabling horrendous crimes has encouraged a nativist backlash
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
The impoverishment of British values
Modern moral codes cannot define the totality of Britishness
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
