David Owen
Lord Owen was Foreign Secretary 1977-79, and is the author of Riddle, Mystery and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British-Russian Relations (Haus Publishing, 2021)
Putin’s brutal war shows why we still need NATO
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the folly of proposals for a European army
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Britain must reindustrialise
A truly conservative economics must prioritise making, not speculating
Fear and tension in Frankfurt
Mass immigration has exacerbated societal dysfunction in Germany
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
Killing the good Samaritans
In the face of monstrous violence, we are losing control of our public spaces