A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power

Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget

Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture

Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another? 

The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat

There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press

A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud

A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new

Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation

Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose