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
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”