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A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
