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
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?