David Garry Hughes
David Garry Hughes is a London-based critic. He tweets at @BelovedFire_
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year