Historic Preservation
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
What’s gone is here again
Video game technology has reconstructed the lost gardens of Alexander Pope
What price Parliament
Renovating Westminster taxes the Leader’s ingenuity — and the public’s pocketbook
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
