London Custom Hous
Killing the London Custom House
It’s every bland, soulless, “luxury” hotel development that has been proposed for the past thirty years
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
