Romans
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
How united is Italy?
Professor Jeremy Black and Political Editor Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Is fat a feminist issue?
Accepting your body is a selective exercise for some progressives
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness