Architecture
The Palace of Westminster is falling down
Nicholas Boys Smith joins The Critic Show to discuss architecture
Recognition that small is beautiful
There is no reason why we can’t experience the quality of buildings at a small scale
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
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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 enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for