Victorian architecture
Call for the King
Why the Restoration and Renewal Programme is mad, bad, dangerous for Parliament and must be stopped
Prickly architect of Gothic marvels
Butterfield was a more complex figure than was evident in his great set-piece buildings
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them