Middle-age
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
California dreaming
The delight of discovering an affordable California blend
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness