Possessions
Goodbye to all that stuff
We used to love filling our homes with possessions. Now, less is more — indeed, it’s everything
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel