National Portrait Gallery
Down with skool
When will we stop herding unwilling children into an academic schooling many of them don’t want or need?
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
