Refurbishment of Parliament
Restore, renew or start again?
The debate on Parliament’s refurbishment won’t be resolved until we decide how much we want to change it
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
