Yale
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
Did Newton microaggress?
The government should stop supporting the EDI industry
June: Letters to the Editor
Ukraine provides the best argument for why countries should not lightly discard nuclear weapons
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
Poland was and is right about Russia
Opposing Putin isn’t hawkish, just realistic
The vast plight of the Proms
The end of BBC Four is a death sentence for BBC Orchestras and the Proms alike
Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
The Welsh way of woke
Wales has an established church again: the religion of “anti-racism”