Artillery Row
Letter from Washington: Biden’s Covid bind
How does the President really think the pandemic will end?
Architectural historian against the world
John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Solem Quartet: The Four Quarters (Orchid)
The Solem Quartet are my frontrunners for the best new talent in 2021
The womb industry
Women’s bodies should not be for rent
We’re us, not the US
Other than US media wages, why do BBC journalists want Britain to be America?
Did the anti-lockdown razor story really happen?
The BBC’s fact-checkers just can’t cut it
Khrushchev – shoe banger for a superpower
On the 50th anniversary of his death – what should we make of Nikita Khrushchev?
Did the PM tell the truth about Net Zero?
Fact-checking Boris Johnson’s answer to my PMQ
Terror and its apologists
The liberal left’s excuses mask the real culprit behind terror attacks
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
