On Architecture
A cathedral in the classical tradition
A serene reinvigoration of the classical tradition
Bricks and mortarboards
An architect who makes a virtue of the laconic
When architects meet their makers
Studies in the pleasures of timber, thatch and stone
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
In praise of Spanish practices
What Compostela can teach the City
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
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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 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
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
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution