Architecture
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
When architects meet their makers
Studies in the pleasures of timber, thatch and stone
A sense of palace
It’s apparently beyond us to fix one of the world’s greatest buildings
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
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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
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing