Trafalgar Square
The Queen’s plinth?
Let’s put this sorry landmark to patriotic use
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Whither the RIBA’s drawings?
Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
