Ryan Murphy
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
