Harry Eyres
Harry Eyres is a writer, poet and journalist. He tweets at @sloweyres
The intoxicating fizz of success
English wines add something unique to the world’s spectrum of flavours
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill