London
Old and new
Regenerating existing neighbourhoods vs. attracting international attention: the two most prominent current approaches to urban planning
How can we solve a problem like modern architecture?
We must look rather than argue
How to find a place to live in London
If you really have to
How to walk around London
It is never just walking
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
An inspector calls
An Englishman’s illegally small room should be his castle
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Going deep on the river
Make no mistake, the boat race is a blood sport
On a pedestal?
Give up joyless meat-hating for Lent
The City’s disenfranchised voters
As the City of London goes to the polls, why are thousands being denied the right to vote?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
