urbanism
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
How to deface a national treasure
Once lauded as one of the most charming historic cities in England, Cambridge is being ruined by architectural monstrosities and ill-thought-out traffic schemes
The ghosts of Norwich
The callous destruction of an ancient city in the name of efficiency, modernity and a failed utopian vision of “the Good Life”
The life of lifts
The mechanical wonders of high-speed elevation
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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
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)