Architecture
Don’t be down on Poundbury
More spacious, more green and better built than any other suburban development
Should new buildings make Cambridge better or worse?
Our alternative is much more popular than Christ’s College’s new proposed library
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
Some observations on aspects of contemporary Scotland
The splendid and unique heritage of Scotland is being betrayed
A neoclassical style fit for a Queen
The beaux arts tradition lives on
Some observations on public commemoration
Memorials should be meaningful, not mawkish
The man with a masterplan
The visionary architect Léon Krier, chosen by King Charles to create his model village, Poundbury
Nourishing the human soul
Nigel Anderson is an architect worth celebrating
Brunelleschi’s egg
Demythologising a Renaissance genius
A bronzed beauty worthy of a prize?
An ethereal contender for the Stirling Prize
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories