Hit Parade
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA