Pat Rogers
Grubbing a living
These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
