David Lammy
Starmer’s silence
Why won’t Labour stand by women?
Cabinet Wars – Episode 2
Comparing the Cabinet on Twitter might suggest who is on manoeuvres – and who’s dropped the social media ball
Virtue Signalling
MPs get unconscious bias training, Terfs are sacked, Adele offends the woke gods and Stonewall get into Rugby
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable
It should have been Kemi
The Tories may have just thrown away the next election
The rise and fall of Sad White Men
Novels about middle class male malaise are now considered passé but they were once both groundbreaking and shocking
The EU’s appetite for power
What has Europe learned from Roe v Wade?
King of the clay court
On the red clay of Stade Roland Garros, Nadal is God
The post-liberal trap
The new communitarianism looks suspiciously like what we have already
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?