London
Capitalist Capital
Now that London is driving a revival in the UK’s economy there will no longer be any mileage in anti-capitalist rhetoric
A Tale of Concert Halls in Two Cities
Paris has a bold and visionary attitude to building for the arts. Why can’t London follow suit?
At Home with the Letwins’ Salon
Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead
Home Sweet Home From Home
‘One can become American but one can never become English’
London Needs a Real Cultural Revolution
Boris Johnson should spend his second mayoral term reversing Ken Livingstone’s legacy of inverse snobbery and interest group politics
Cycle Ire
‘I sympathise with London motorists who are exasperated with massive packs of cyclists’
London and the Fornicating ’50s
Capital Affairs: The Making of Permissive Society by Frank Mort
This is England
‘England is perceived by my Continental friends as being a country that is all about belonging or not belonging’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts