South Bank Centre
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands