Architecture
Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
The Jenrick method
The saga of Victoria Tower Gardens
Priests and palaces
The Archbishops don’t realise the significance of the church building
Sacred — and vital — spaces
A church is not the same as an old castle or a pub
Pugin on the ritz
There’s no case for the costly decant of parliament now
Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream
The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit
Clementi House
From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home
Classless Act
Gavin Stamp believed in what he saw. Roger Scruton saw what he believed in
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier