French Election
Liberty, fraternity, animosity
The right-wing turn in France
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
The empire strikes back
France is going to the polls in the shadow of its colonial past
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
