Miners’ Strike
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
