Sir Joan Soane
Crumbling is not an instant’s act
A new exhibition revels in the intricacies and drama of architectural drawings — and the ruins of buildings they leave behind
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
