Heritage
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
The law that could save our Crooked Houses
Important buildings deserve speedier protection
The immoral case for restitution
Britain does not owe Greece the Parthenon sculptures
No place for young’uns
Why are pensioners the favoured customer of the National Trust?
Will the Chinese “decolonise” Hong Kong?
Will a newly assertive Beijing seek to “decolonise” Hong Kong of the last visible signs of its colonial past?
Burning heritage
Are the Houses of Parliament set for the flames? Brice Stratford discusses with David Scullion
Burning down the House
Parliament will be destroyed if the narrow-minded idiocy of MPs like Dehenna Davison get their way
Burned by political expedience
Clandon Park remains a shell after it was gutted by fire six years ago. Now the National Trust is telling a one-sided story about its past
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
