Architecture
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet
Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
When London really was built back better
This is an eloquent book that describes the architecture, culture, topography, and social life of a vibrant city
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
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
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
