Christopher Wren
The great Wren
Marking the 100th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death
In Betjeman’s footsteps
Admiring the sheer imaginative power of Wren
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
