Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
