Cities
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
Something in the Bath water
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
British lessons for Canadian politics
What can the experiences of the Labour Party teach Pierre Poilievre?
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
