Yale
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
