Housing
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Debunking the empty homes myth
Investor bans, empty homes, and the great housing self-deception
Why the Government won’t hit its housing target
The Great British Housing Disease has yet to be cured
In defence of the Town and Country Planning Act
The essentially valuable function of the planning system has been subverted by its inheritors
Against Awaab’s Law
In defence of damp and mouldy tenancies
London needs more homes, and it needs them soon
Regulations and inertia are making London impossible to build in
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures