Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
