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
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes