Architecture
Crumbling is not an instant’s act
A new exhibition revels in the intricacies and drama of architectural drawings — and the ruins of buildings they leave behind
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
Urban skirmish
The new Chelsea Barracks is striking for its forgetfulness
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet
Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
When London really was built back better
This is an eloquent book that describes the architecture, culture, topography, and social life of a vibrant city
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
Spanish prize
Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
