Architecture
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
A magnificent update — for good and ill
Only one with a slightly deranged confidence could ever have attempted it
Most Read
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
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
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
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve