Emeric Pressburger
We have forgotten the titans of British cinema
It has fallen to Scorsese to rescue the reputation of Powell and Pressburger
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
