Books
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
