Modern Architecture
What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?
The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
City of pricks
London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
