London
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
Non-nose job
In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
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
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
