urbanism
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
“15-minute cities” is not a policy
Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling
We must escape the doom loop of urban decline
Small antisocial acts add up to massive problems in our cities
New towns must be good towns
New towns of the future must be beautiful and successful communities
In praise of cars
Britain should hit the brakes on the anti-car agenda and embrace driving
The best-laid plans
A decade-old novel is worth reconsidering for how it addresses the questions of modernity
The process of yookay-ification
Our author takes a personal tour around an emerging country
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth