the Foreign Office

We let Hong Kong down: Chris Patten on the end of colonial rule

25 June 2022 9:00 am

After 13 years in parliament, rising star Chris Patten had the bad luck to be one of the few Tory…

The nave of St Mary’s, Stafford, restored by George Gilbert Scott

Mighty monuments — or neo-Gothic horrors?

26 September 2015 8:00 am

Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in…