Graffiti
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
I’m a Classic FM convert
Ignore the snobs, trip the light (music) fantastic and bask in the shameless joy of Classic FM
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
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
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
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
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
