Historic Preservation
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
The National Trust should act its age
Our main heritage conservation charity wants to be down with the kids
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
The preserve of the forelock-tuggers
Modern Buildings in Britain offers an encyclopaedia of potential future losses
How Evelyn Waugh saved the English country house
The improbable democratisation of an aristocratic institution
Building for eternity
Earlier generations of Britons built for the next generation –– but we’re stuck in a selfish present
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
The problem of religious traditionalists
They wish to pass on the flame
The suburbanisation of Stonehenge
Spiritual clichés offer no more than mere commerce
Brought to light
May the reprieve of Westminster’s gas lamps become a full pardon
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
