Architecture
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
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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
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game