On Architecture
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
A magnificent gift for Oxford
The Schwarzman Centre offers stately new facilities for all the university’s humanities departments
Recognition that small is beautiful
There is no reason why we can’t experience the quality of buildings at a small scale
Don’t be down on Poundbury
More spacious, more green and better built than any other suburban development
No longer a nation of shopkeepers
Local authorities support rack-renting landlords instead of small traders
A neoclassical style fit for a Queen
The beaux arts tradition lives on
A bronzed beauty worthy of a prize?
An ethereal contender for the Stirling Prize
A respectful renovation
The redesigned Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery by Selldorf Architects
An architect for the British Museum
Brought up in war-torn Beirut, Lina Ghotmeh later designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?