Houses of Parliament
House of Lords — keep, reform or abolish?
Why is there so little agreement?
In the shadow of the crown
The inefficient paid tribute to the dignified
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Pugin on the ritz
There’s no case for the costly decant of parliament now
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Who made parliament woke?
Parliamentary authorities are driving the social justice agenda all by themselves
The battle for modern architecture
Listed landmarks face the threat of short-sightedness and greed
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
