Architecture
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe
The great Wren
Marking the 100th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death
The beastly East
The question is whether the heart of Whitechapel can keep its character under the pressures of urban development
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
Hitler’s revenge
The RIBA Journal confuses architectural history
A School of Place?
Wrong answers to good questions on urban design
Anglican age of a thousand churches
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change
Exploding the Anglosphere Dream
Is canzuk revivalism scary enough to need book-length refutation?
Architecture’s abysmal ignorance
Artificial Intelligence reveals what experts deny
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes