Barclay brothers
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat