Will Loxley
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language