David Ekserdjian
Building on Pevsner
Christopher Tadgell’s seven-volume Architecture In Context is astonishingly ambitious, and effortlessly even-handed
How Olympian Was Renaissance Man?
Leonardo is seen as the presiding genius of his age, but his drawings reveal a reassuringly human artist
Lovelorn Landscape
Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities