Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Buildings are storytellers
Civic architecture should be more than functional
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
