Architecture
Why don’t we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?
The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture
What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?
The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody
House of fun
The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
Studio: UNES-GO
Liverpool in the wake of losing its UNESCO world heritage status
Killing the London Custom House
It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years
The Critic’s new home
Ecclesiastical textiles, Regency architecture and relief carvings: welcome to The Critic’s new address
City of pricks
London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets
A drawing is worth a thousand photographs
This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education
The bludgeoning of Brick Lane
Prioritising millionaires over working class communities is now standard practice for London Labourites
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
