Victorian Art
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
Race to the end
The Tate’s latest offering reveals more about its curators than its art
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
