England
The Anglo-Dutch moment and its consequences
The English and the Dutch owe more to each other than they realise
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
