Conservation
Passion by the barrel
Meeting the new boss of London’s finest gunmaker
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Plains of plenty
The Masai Mara has defied gloomy predictions of decline and still supports a thriving ecosystem as rich as it ever was
Not built to last
Ugly buildings are an environmental catastrophe
Architectural historian against the world
John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism
Playing the wild card
“Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
